Everything is still showing files from a detached hard drive even after a rebuild

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Tony2022
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Everything is still showing files from a detached hard drive even after a rebuild

Post by Tony2022 »

Everything is showing files that were on an external hard drive that I disconnected a few days ago. I did a Force Rebuild twice and it's still showing those files.
When I right click on a file and select Open Path, I get a 'The system cannot find the drive specified.' which confirms there's no such drive.

I am using version 1.5.0.1298a.

It seems my next step is to delete the database.
NotNull
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Re: Everything is still showing files from a detached hard drive even after a rebuild

Post by NotNull »

No need to delete the database ..

Everything will keep offline volumes in the index permanently by default, but it is configurable:

- Go to Menu:Tools > Options > Indexes > NTFS
- Enable Automatically remove offline volumes


In case it wasn't an NTFS drive (or ReFS drive; same procedure) and you added the drive under Indexes > Folders :

- Select that drive from the list and click the Delete button.
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