Everything 1.4.1.1005 (x64) ignoring "Exclude (folder)" and "Never rescan (folder)"?

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Output of typing this at the Windows command prompt: wmic logicaldisk get volumename,name,description

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Description         Name  VolumeName
Network Connection  A:
Network Connection  B:
Local Fixed Disk    C:    Local Disk
Local Fixed Disk    D:    Local Disk
Local Fixed Disk    G:    Local Disk
Network Connection  M:    macmini
Network Connection  Q:
Network Connection  R:
Network Connection  S:
Network Connection  U:
Network Connection  X:    windesktop

Output of typing this at the Windows command prompt: net use

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New connections will be remembered.

Status       Local     Remote                    Network

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Disconnected A:        \\hda\OldWHS              Microsoft Windows Network
Disconnected B:        \\hda\MachineBackups      Microsoft Windows Network
             M:        \\macmini\macmini-m       Virtual Network Shares CBFS v6
Unavailable  P:        \\pluto\neptune           Microsoft Windows Network
Disconnected Q:        \\hda\Qbittorrent         Microsoft Windows Network
Disconnected R:        \\hda\DigitalDust         Microsoft Windows Network
Disconnected S:        \\hda\DigitalDust2        Microsoft Windows Network
Disconnected U:        \\hda\Downloads           Microsoft Windows Network
OK           X:        \\windesktop\f_drive_sm4  Microsoft Windows Network

The command completed successfully.

Drive M: (indexed by Everything) and drive X: (not indexed by Everything) are online. All other network drives are offline.

1) Drive P:

Note: What is somewhat misleading about the "Folders" screen capture below is that at the time a rescan of all drives was started, the M:\de2 folder was highlighted. I highlighted P: before taking the screen capture to show its rescan options for posting here. In other words, if I had had P: highlighted before the rescan started, I could understand it if Everything decided I really really wanted it rescanned even though it was marked "Never rescan" and listed on the Exclude list.

The reason P: is in both places is because there are times when I want to temporarily exclude P: but have Everything keep the the "Rescan" choices; it's easier to just add/remove P: on the exclude list than for me to have to remove it from Folders, re-add later, and not remember what Rescan choice I had for it.

Question 1a Everything proceeded down the folder list and I was surprised that it did a rescan on P: since it's listed as both "Never rescan" AND on the Exclude list. Is there some Everything setting I might have somewhere else that is causing Everything to ignore "Never rescan" and the Exclude list?

Question 1b It isn't shown at all in the

wmic

output above. What method does Everything use to determine the online/offline drive/folder status?

2) Drives Q:, R:, S: and U:

Question 2 Everything appears to try accessing them during a rescan for about a minute each before giving up and going to the next drive. Is the minute delay normal or should it be shorter?

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Everything Options - Folders - Never rescan

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Everything Options - Exclude

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The reason P: is in both places is because there are times when I want to temporarily exclude P: but have Everything keep the the "Rescan" choices; it's easier to just add/remove P: on the exclude list than for me to have to remove it from Folders, re-add later, and not remember what Rescan choice I had for it.

It might be easier to do this as a filter:

• In Everything, from the Search menu, click Add to filters...
• Change the Name to: P: drive
• Change the Search to: p:
• Click OK.
• From the Search menu, click Add to filters...
• Change the Name to: Not P: drive
• Change the Search to: !p:
• Click OK.

Filters can be activated from the Search menu, Filter bar (View -> Filters), right clicking the status bar, filter macro or filter keyboard shortcut.

Note: you can also edit your Everything filter if you wish to make !p: the default.

Question 1a Everything proceeded down the folder list and I was surprised that it did a rescan on P: since it's listed as both "Never rescan" AND on the Exclude list. Is there some Everything setting I might have somewhere else that is causing Everything to ignore "Never rescan" and the Exclude list?

Selecting the P: drive and clicking Rescan, or clicking Rescan All, will attempt to rescan your P: drive.
Even when Never rescan is checked (Never rescan actually means never 'automatically' rescan -you can still manually rescan)

To avoid rescanning the P: drive with Rescan All, consider indexing your P: drive as a file list.

Consider generating a daily file list of your P: drive.
Open the file list when you need to search your P: drive

Question 1b It isn't shown at all in the wmic output above. What method does Everything use to determine the online/offline drive/folder status?

Everything will try to read the attributes of the root directory (P: in this case)
If this fails, Everything will treat the volume as offline.

Question 2 Everything appears to try accessing them during a rescan for about a minute each before giving up and going to the next drive. Is the minute delay normal or should it be shorter?

Everything will timeout after 1 minute when attempting to read the attributes of the offline root directory (P: in this case).