[AccessD] “Everything” from VoidTools – Need to Search Mapped Network Drives

Everything works by building an initial index, which takes quite some time, but updates are 
quick because it just  monitors write activity on the machine. It never re-scans and re-indexes 
unless you specifically tell it to.

Trying to maintain an index on a removeable drive that can be be altered when not attached 
to the PC running Everything would be a nightmare. Everything would need to run a full scan 
and do a re-index of the device every time that it was re-inserted.  

Same applied for network devices.  Any software which tries to index a networked drive 
remotely  would have to be constantly scanning it to see if anything had been changed by 
another device on the network.

However:  you can run Everything on a file server and enable the built in HTTP or EPT/FTP 
server on that machine.  Connecting to that server will allow you to use Everything on 
network drives  (Check out the Everything Help)

-- 
Stuart

On 21 Jul 2014 at 16:54, Heenan, Lambert wrote:

> I think it will work with flash drives, but they have to be formatted
> as NTFS - as is the case with any other local drives.
> 
> Lambert
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2014 10:47 AM To: Access Developers discussion
> and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] "Everything" from
> VoidTools - Need to Search Mapped Network Drives
> 
> And attached flash devices would be nice.
> On Jul 21, 2014 10:41 AM, "Brad Marks" <bradm at blackforestltd.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > All,
> >
> > A couple years ago, someone here on AccessD mentioned the
> > "Everything" free search utility from VoidTools.  I downloaded
> > it and I now use it frequently.
> >
> > The downside is that Everything only searches local drives.
> >
> > I am curious if anyone has experience with a different free or
> > inexpensive search utility that could search mapped network drives.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brad
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