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

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Mon Jul 21 18:01:06 CDT 2014


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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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bill Benson
> 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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