File thumbnails/icons dimmed on one drive

If you are experiencing problems with "Everything", post here for assistance.
Post Reply
seawizard
Posts: 3
Joined: Mon Mar 20, 2023 9:55 pm

File thumbnails/icons dimmed on one drive

Post by seawizard »

Hey, I have a weird issue appear the last couple of days

Suddenly thumbnail/icons of files one one of my drives appear dimmed, with significantly lowered brightness.

Thumbnails/icons on other drives have normal brightness

Anyone can help? :?:
void
Developer
Posts: 16745
Joined: Fri Oct 16, 2009 11:31 pm

Re: File thumbnails/icons dimmed on one drive

Post by void »

Everything 1.5 shows offline drives with dimmed text, thumbnails and icons.

Was this drive unplugged or disconnected?
seawizard
Posts: 3
Joined: Mon Mar 20, 2023 9:55 pm

Re: File thumbnails/icons dimmed on one drive

Post by seawizard »

Thanks for the reply void. Somehow it is back to normal now.

It was an internal drive, not unplugged or disconnected. I don't know what happened. Maybe a restart from sleep fixed the issue? Im also running bitlocker on the drive btw.

Anyway, good to know why it was dimmed. I guess somehow the drive was registered as disconnected. :?:
void
Developer
Posts: 16745
Joined: Fri Oct 16, 2009 11:31 pm

Re: File thumbnails/icons dimmed on one drive

Post by void »

Enabling debug logging before the issue occurs would confirm the issue.

It depends on the drive, volume and error returned from the system.
Everything sees NTFS volumes as offline if Everything is unable to open this volume and read the USN Journal.
In this case, it's most likely the drive was bitlocker-locked so Everything was unable to read the USN Journal.

Everything sees folder indexes as offline if the Windows ReadDirectoryChanges API fails.

Attempt to monitor changes
offline_alpha
Post Reply