Does not return the path to the MS Office executable.

[yuusakuri]

I ran the following code in powershell.
Get-Item returns the path to the file, although es.exe didn't return anything when I looked for it.

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$path = 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE'

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es.exe -i $path

Returns $null

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Get-Item -LiteralPath $path | Select-Object -ExpandProperty fullname

Returns 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\root\Office16\EXCEL.EXE'

[void]

The Excel.exe file is most likely a hard link.

While Everything does indexing all hardlinks, changes to hard links can be missed.

Please try forcing a rebuild in Everything and see if ES returns the correct results.

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Indexes tab on the left.
• Click Force Rebuild.
• Click OK.

[yuusakuri]

Thank you very much. I got the Excel path.
By the way, is there a way to do this with the CLI?

[void]

Force a rebuild from the CLI?

Please try the -reindex command line option with Everything.exe:

Everything.exe -reindex

If you want ES to wait for the reindex, please use a timeout value, eg:
es.exe excel.exe -timeout 99999

where 99999 is the number of milliseconds to wait for Everything to reply.