I used this for a while. What I don't like is that it updates its database by creating an entirely new copy and then deleting/renaming. For me that meant a several-hundred-MB file was being unnecessarily rewritten on a regular basis. It's a rather excessive waste of resources and not a polite thing to do when a lot of people have SSDs now.
I think you could uncheck “Indexes” → “NTFS” (or ReFS, or FAT, or whatever else) → “Monitor changes” to disable that and leave yourself to press the “Force Rebuild” button at whatever cadence you like.
Or, in `Everything.ini` terms:
allow_force_rebuild=1
home_update_indexes=1 -- ‘use the monitor_pause and monitor_stop states’
monitor_stop=1
home_update_indexed_properties=1 -- ‘use the indexed_property_pause state’
indexed_property_pause=1
read_directory_changes=0
Also I just realized you can get a better middle ground between the default daily DB update and RAM-only mode:
db_auto_save_type=1 -- (From daily to interval mode)
db_auto_save_interval=<milliseconds>
and btw sorry I'm not trying to convince you to like Everything; was just curious to figure out if/how it could be done :)
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I used this for a while. What I don't like is that it updates its database by creating an entirely new copy and then deleting/renaming. For me that meant a several-hundred-MB file was being unnecessarily rewritten on a regular basis. It's a rather excessive waste of resources and not a polite thing to do when a lot of people have SSDs now.
I uninstalled it for that reason.
If you set `no_db=1` in `Everything.ini` you can configure it to be memory-only: https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9994#:~:text...
I think re-indexing all my drives every time it runs is even worse.
I think you could uncheck “Indexes” → “NTFS” (or ReFS, or FAT, or whatever else) → “Monitor changes” to disable that and leave yourself to press the “Force Rebuild” button at whatever cadence you like.
Or, in `Everything.ini` terms:
Also I just realized you can get a better middle ground between the default daily DB update and RAM-only mode: and btw sorry I'm not trying to convince you to like Everything; was just curious to figure out if/how it could be done :)