FAT Drives keep reappearing

[sk2107]

Hi,

I have these 2 mapped Google drive which are automatically recognized as FAT and visible all the time for windows (10).
The thing that every short time (may be half an hour or so, not sure) Everything shows two copies of each, one of them is OFFLINE and each time I remove the offline volume it appears again in a short time.

I disabled "automatically Include new removable volumes" but did not change anything.

Main while I don't want to disable the option "Enable Automatically remove offline Volume" because I have few HDDs that I use their OFFLINE list.

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Regards

[void]

Are the volume names different? (shown when you double click the drives in this list)

[sk2107]

No. Each duplicate mapped drive letter has the same volume name in the list.

Regards

[void]

Thank you for the information.

Maybe the root is changing..
Could you please send your Help -> Troubleshooting Information to support@voidtools.com

[sk2107]

No. Each duplicate mapped drive letter has the same volume name in the list.

Regards

Hello,
I apologize for the confusion. It turns out that the volume names differ for the same path, even though they correspond to the same mapped location on my fixed hard drive. These are samples from my drives, all of which are linked to Google Drive.

\\?\Volume{9cb9813d-478e-11ee-81f7-dce9948b7f26} (T:) (Offline)
\\?\Volume{ef53cbdd-4976-11ee-81f8-dce9948b7f26} (T:)

\\?\Volume{9cb98140-478e-11ee-81f7-dce9948b7f26} (W:) (Offline)
\\?\Volume{ef53cbf5-4976-11ee-81f8-dce9948b7f26} (W:)

So how can I avoid this?

Best Regards

[void]

Windows and Everything will see these volumes as new.



There's not a lot Everything can do here.

There is an option to track volumes by serial number.
However, I don't recommend enabling this setting as it is common for volumes to have the same serial number.

To track volumes by serial number:

• In Everything 1.5, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Advanced tab on the left.
• To the right of Show settings containing, search for:
  serial
• Select auto_move_same_serial_number.
• Set the value to: true
• Click OK.

Another option is to index the FAT drives as a folder index by drive letter.

• In Everything 1.5, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the FAT tab on the left.
• Uncheck Automatically include new fixed volumes.
• Uncheck Automatically include new removable volumes.
• For each FAT drive:
  • Uncheck Include in database.
• Click the Folders tab on the left.
• Click Add....
• Select your FAT drive and click OK.
• Repeat for additional drives.
• Click OK.

The problem with this method is the volume is tracked by drive letter. Nothing else.
If you plug in another FAT volume with the same drive letter it will replace your existing index when a rescan is performed.

[sk2107]

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Thank you and best regards