Maybe a stupid question but I do not know enough about Everything yet.
Maybe I am doing something wrong, but when I get results back I can do things with the results but not all of them. Many results when I click them say that windows cannot find the path to the result, it rings a bell and shows a red cross. And it is correct, the path does not exist (anymore).
I want to see only real paths that work, not ones that cannot be found.
Is there a way to do that, I cannot find it yet.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
Earl Specht, The Netherlands
Results show a valid path, not a path that does not exist
Re: Results show a valid path, not a path that does not exist
Please make sure Everything is installed correctly and running as a standard user:
Please try forcing a rebuild:
Does the issue persist?
- In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
- Click the General tab on the left.
- Check Store settings and data in %APPDATA%\Everything.
- Uncheck Run as administrator.
- Check Everything Service. (Please make sure this is tick-checked and not square-checked)
- Click OK.
- Exit Everything (right click the Everything tray icon and click Exit).
- Restart Everything.
Please try forcing a rebuild:
- In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
- Click the Indexes tab on the left.
- Click Force Rebuild.
- Click OK.
Does the issue persist?
Re: Results show a valid path, not a path that does not exist
Hello (David?)
It works now.
The first part of the fix, was good, I did not have to change anything.
The second part did the trick, Rebuilding.
I have never done a rebuilding, so I am thinking I should do that sometimes? Or not?
Could it be also that I am searching a lot of data (Terabytes)?
Greeting and many THANKS for your help, if this continues to work it will save me much time.
It works now.
The first part of the fix, was good, I did not have to change anything.
The second part did the trick, Rebuilding.
I have never done a rebuilding, so I am thinking I should do that sometimes? Or not?
Could it be also that I am searching a lot of data (Terabytes)?
Greeting and many THANKS for your help, if this continues to work it will save me much time.
Re: Results show a valid path, not a path that does not exist
Generally, no.
You shouldn't need to perform a manual reindex.
Everything 1.4 doesn't track changes to hard links. (Everything 1.5 will)
Everything doesn't detect deleted hard links.
It can sometimes help to force a rebuild to detect these changes.
Excluded files/folders are not automatically reindexed when the should be included.
If you have enabled any exclude filters under Tools -> Options -> Exclude, it can sometimes be necessary to force a rebuild to find files/folders that should be included.
Tracking changes to NTFS volumes will be slightly improved in Everything 1.5.
You shouldn't need to perform a manual reindex.
Everything 1.4 doesn't track changes to hard links. (Everything 1.5 will)
Everything doesn't detect deleted hard links.
It can sometimes help to force a rebuild to detect these changes.
Excluded files/folders are not automatically reindexed when the should be included.
If you have enabled any exclude filters under Tools -> Options -> Exclude, it can sometimes be necessary to force a rebuild to find files/folders that should be included.
Tracking changes to NTFS volumes will be slightly improved in Everything 1.5.