Everything displays nothing; still chokes CPU & RAM to death

[thatKaran]

I was using version 1.2.1.371.exe on Windows 7 for a long time and it was running perfect.
Then I wanted to try the latest beta 1.3.3.658b. When it started for the first time after install, it showed no files at all and the status bar read "Scanning System (C:)". The CPU usage of Everything process was high, upto 25%. And its RAM usage kept growing up. It went upto 200MB when I killed the process.

So, I uninstalled the beta, and got the stable version again. But now the stable version is also behaving the same! I tried uninstalling-installing multiple times, also tried portable exe. Nothing works. Is there some registry setting leftover by the beta that's causing this problem? Please help.

[void]

What is displayed in the debug console when this hang occurs?

Everything stores it's settings in the Everything.ini file.
You can locate this file in the same location as the Everything.exe file or in your %APPDATA%\Everything folder.
Delete this file while Everything is closed to restore the defaults.

Please try checking your volumes for file system errors.

Please try disabling and re-enabling the USN Journal on each NTFS volume from Tools -> Options -> NTFS.

[thatKaran]

Debug Console output:

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ui_t::create()
ui_t::on_create()
ui_t::on_create(): done
db::load
db::destroy
load db...
ui_t::create(): done
db::destroy
begin create_db C

Couldn't disable USN journals on volumes, because when I click Apply, the application just hangs ("Not Responding") indefinitely. Also tried adding dont_monitor_drive_C=1, check_media_C=1, etc to the .ini file manually. In that case, application doesn't hog resources and nothing is displayed obviously. When I again delete the ini file to reset settings, the issue reoccurs.

[vsub]

Open the Everything.ini while the program is not running and set this to 0
auto_include_fixed_volumes
auto_include_removable_volumes
Then delete the database(Everything.db)and start Everything

[thatKaran]

After setting auto_include_fixed_volumes to 0 in .ini, I opened the application and then enabled 'include in database' for D: drive only. Worked fine, I could do the search as usual. Then I tried enabling the same for C:, again, application froze after hitting apply. Tried with 'USN journaling' enabled and disabled, both.
So, the problem is that Everything cannot index my C: drive only. What could be the reason? I have administrative privileges, and I run Everything as administrator too.

[therube]

the problem is that Everything cannot index my C: drive only

try checking your volumes for file system errors

?

[thatKaran]

I checked my C: for file system errors. No problem there.
Still, Everything can't index it. Any other suggestions please? To re-emphasize, this started happening only after when I tried latest beta of Everything.