Can "remove offline volumes" behavior be improved somehow?

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aybe
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Can "remove offline volumes" behavior be improved somehow?

Post by aybe »

Here's the problem:
  • USB external hard drive is connected
  • Everything scans it, all is good, it can be searched
  • Then drive is turned off, Everything removes it obviously
  • Drive is turned back on, can't be searched anymore since Everything stopped monitoring it
This obviously works as intended but isn't very friendly as each time you plug the drive, you have to manually include it in the database again and again, pretty annoying.

I tried to play a bit with the settings but I would say the results are even worse:
  • Deselect 'Automatically remove offline volumes'
  • Now that works except that when the external drive is off, search results still show up...
What I'm looking for:
  • Everything figures it out on its own
  • if drive is off then don't show results about it
  • when it's back on, Everything scans it automatically and shows results on it
i.e. plug and play behavior

Maybe there's already a combination of settings that would allow such behavior but I couldn't figure it out.

Thank you! :D
void
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Re: Can "remove offline volumes" behavior be improved somehow?

Post by void »

Drive is turned back on, can't be searched anymore since Everything stopped monitoring it
Everything should automatically re-add your drive.

Please make sure Tools -> Options -> NTFS -> Automatically include new fixed volumes is checked.

(The external USB hard drive is a 'fixed' drive)
aybe
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Re: Can "remove offline volumes" behavior be improved somehow?

Post by aybe »

Worked perfectly, thanks! :D
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