everything not finding music files

[RobLatour]

Everything is not finding my music files.

They are stored in E:\Music

Everythings settings search the e: drive, with no exclusions.

The directory E:/Music does show up in Everything's main window, but the only files that are listed are "desktop.ini" for the E:/Music directory and each of its subdirectories.

I tried a force rebuild of the index but it did not resolve the issue

What might I be missing?

[NotNull]

You might have enabled the Document filter.
Change it to the Everything filter to show all files ( Menu:Search > Everything )


Suggestion:
Enable the filter bar. It will be shown nxt to the search bar, so you can see what filter is enabled:
Menu:View > Filters

The active filter is also shown in the status bar (if it different from the Everything filter).

[therube]

Check the settings under the Search menu item.
Might you have Case enabled, & your directory is named "MUSIC" rather then "Music"?

[NotNull]

That doesn't explain why the desktop.ini files are still shown.

[therube]

Attrib +H is set (in Everything)?
[Can you do that?]

[NotNull]

Do you mean searching for

attrib:H

to show files/folders that have the Hidden file-attribute set?

Or to add the Hidden attribute to a file?
That can be done through context menu > Properties > General Tab : enable Hidden

Or something else?

[RobLatour]

Thank you

NotNull had the right solution!
>> You might have enabled the Document filter.

(I didn't even know it was there, must have hit it by mistake somehow)

Thanks again