Wouldn't it be better to ask the user which volumes to index

[Stamimail]

at First Run?
Adding new section, somthing like those checkboxes:



to the existing First Run dialog box:

[therube]

Why?
To keep it from, by default, automatically scanning all fixed HDD?

I have one (beta) application where on every (app) open, it would scan all "HDD", including a "phantom" A: drive of mine, which was very slow to occur, & also repopulate all ("regular") fixed HDD - with no option to remove them from its interface. Those behaviors will change before the release.

In Everything, perhaps I might run into something similar, but only once, until I go in & configure Indexes to my wants.

[Stamimail]

Answers:
1. Yes, to keep it from automatically scanning all fixed HDD, in case you have a lot of large HHDs and you don't need to scan them all.
2. You will be able to configure in advance, Network Folders.
3. Letting newbies to get familiar with "indexing", let them to control, and inform them where they can change this settings.
By default, all checkboxes of fixed HDD can be checked, as it the default behavior now.
Are there downsides?

[therube]

Actually, the command line has a, -choose-volumes switch to "Do not automatically index volumes".

Command line user, specifically using that switch, would know that they'd have to go in & manually select drives for indexing.

A GUI user would likely be surprised & come back saying, "hey, nothing shows up!".

So for them, it would need to open some sort of selector for them to choose drives, as you've shown.

Or you could go the other way.
Provide a switch to the GUI, to disable automatic indexing of volumes.

[Stamimail]

I think I suggested once to have Esc for stop indexing.
But maybe this is a better suggetion.

[void]

What I would like is for Everything to index EVERYTHING by default.
I know Everything doesn't do this, yet...

What needs to be done if I do index all available NTFS / ReFS volumes by default, is make it easy for the user to abort the index creation and change which volumes are indexed without causing the UI to block (become busy).
As you mentioned the ESC key should work, however, everything will only check this once for each volume, so it might not be detected early enough.
There needs to be a progress bar with a cancel icon/button in the status bar (or something similar).

I'll look into a "select volumes to index" GUI.
It would have to take into consideration that a volume could be indexed as NTFS / ReFS or a folder index (and in the future a remote index, fat32 index etc..)

Thanks for the suggestions.

[Stamimail]

Does anyone have an idea how to combine this

and this

and this

?
(will appear in the first run)