Threaded Folder indexing

[Shooter3k]

Maybe I'm missing it but is there an option to scan more than one 'folder' that's been added for indexing? I can only seem to get it to index one at a time

Thanks for any help you're able to offer

[void]

Everything 1.4 will index all your folders in a single thread.
Everything 1.4 will index your folders one at a time.

Are the folders spread over different devices? are they all network shares?

Everything 1.5 will support multiple threads for SSDs and a single thread for each device.
Everything 1.5 will still treat all network shares as a single device by default. see folder_multithreaded to override.

Also see maximum indexing threads in Everything 1.5.


Everything is designed to index only once.

If Everything is constantly reindexing, please make sure Everything is installed correctly:

• 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.

If Everything is still constantly reindexing, please let me know

[Shooter3k]

I'm doing scans of a bunch of network paths that I've added as "folders" so that I can control how often they are rescanned.

The documentation for "folder_multithreaded" isn't clear if the "default" is "multiple threads" or if that has to be set.

tldr; Is there any way to scan with more threads on network drives? It scans for days because of how slow a single thread on our network is......however, if I'm able to thread it with dozens or even hundreds of threads (in other applications), it can speed up dramatically

[void]

The documentation for "folder_multithreaded" isn't clear if the "default" is "multiple threads" or if that has to be set.

Thanks for the letting me know the folder_multithreaded help was not very clear.

folder_multithreaded is set to 0 by default.

When set to 0, Everything will:
Use multiple threads for devices that do not incur a seek penalty. (Network shares do incur a seek penalty. Most SSDs do not)
Otherwise, use a single thread for each unique device.

You can override this setting by forcing multiple threads (1), or a single thread (2).
You may wish to use folder_multithreaded=1 to force multiple threads.



Everything will only use multiple threads to read properties.


Everything only uses a single thread for indexing/scanning.
Please consider breaking the network index up into more folders and enabling folder_multithreaded=1 for each folder index:

For example, instead of indexing \\server\share, index \\server\share\folder1 and \\server\share\folder2 and \\server\share\folder3 and \\server\share\folder4 etc...
Enable folder_multithreaded=1 for each folder index in the Everything.ini (save and exit Everything before changing).
This way Everything will use a separate thread for each folder.

[Borgholio]

When setting folder_multithreaded=1, it does indeed use a separate thread and makes the initial scan of network drives much faster. But when I use the "rescan all" button in the options, it still only uses a single thread to do the scan and update. Is there another option that affects this? Thanks!

[void]

Currently, no.
I will put this on my TODO list.
Thank you for the suggestion.