Two Issues: Slow folder opening in Maya and Everything using 2GB of memory

[mostlyhuman]

Hello there! I love this program so much but am having a couple of issues. The first is when using Autodesk Maya 2025 or Maya 2024, when I try to do file operations within Maya and have to navigate the file system, folders opening have a long delay as well as switching between folders, also sometimes the folders will show blank with no files in them when everything is fine in Explorer. I have run chkdsk on the drive and ran some SSD tests and it passes all tests, so I don't think it is the drive. And then even more weirdness, everything works as it should in Explorer when I first boot my computer but as soon as I load Maya, even if I close Maya, then Explorer will show the same slow issues when opening or switching between folder, but it never has the issue of files not displaying that is only in Maya, it is all very strange.

The second issue is Everything is using 2GB of memory at pretty much all times. I have 64GB so it isn't a huge deal but given what I read on your site it seems like something may be wrong with this much resource usage (but maybe it's normal?)

I thought about trying the v1.5 alpha to see if it helps either of these issues but wanted to check with you first to see if you even think that is a good idea for now.

I attached a screenshot of my settings and now looking at them again I may have made a mistake, I thought the field for USN Journal size was the hard drive space to allocate for the index cache (or is it?). If not, then I'm not sure what USN Journal is or if I even need it.

Cheers!

[void]

Thank you for your feedback mostlyhuman,

Sorry, I don't quite understand the first issue.
Does the issue only occur when you run Everything?
Is opening folders from Everything slow?

The second issue is Everything is using 2GB of memory at pretty much all times.

How many files are you indexing? (Shown in Everything status bar on the left when the search is empty)
For 2GB of RAM, I would expect around 20 million files, which is a lot of files..

I attached a screenshot of my settings and now looking at them again I may have made a mistake,

Tools -> Options -> Indexes:
I do not recommend storing your Everything database location in the cloud.
Consider leaving this setting empty and occasionally backing up %LOCALAPPDATA%\Everything\Everything.db to the cloud.



Tools -> Options -> Folders:
Please remove C: and O: from the list, these files are already indexed under Tools -> Options -> NTFS.
This should half your RAM usage.

I thought the field for USN Journal size was the hard drive space to allocate for the index cache (or is it?). If not, then I'm not sure what USN Journal is or if I even need it.

The USN Journal is an audit of all changes to your drive. (not an index cache)
Your USN Journal size settings are the OS default for O:

The NTFS driver maintains the USN Journal (Not Everything)

[mostlyhuman]

Thank you. I currently have 6,110,284 files total between the two drives on this computer. I removed the C and O drives from Tools -> Options -> Folders as you suggested, and this alone seems to have fixed both issues. I have been monitoring it for about 10 hours now with no problems. Also, the average RAM usage is now down to 524MB, much more reasonable. Thank you for all if your help I am very grateful! I also wanted to ask how stable 1.5 alpha is. Are there any particular features or options you would recommend not using right now in its current state?

[void]

Everything 1.5 is stable.
There's a few minor issues with new features.
I am currently working on these issues, IPC and localization for a beta release soon.

You will likely find Everything 1.5 more stable than 1.4.
For example, Everything 1.5 will give a warning if you try to add duplicated indexes under Tools -> Options -> Folders.
This would have prevented your original issue.