Does Everything ever make changes to files

[paulsmachine]

Sorry for the vague subject what I'm wanting to know, does the act of indexing network shared files ever provide the option to:

1. Alter date modified time
2. Alter date accessed time
3. Alter archive bits

I have a backup that is leaping in size overnight and was wondering if a setting a client might have would impact this in any way. Thanks.

[therube]

Operations can be performed on files found by Everything, but in general, Everything does not affect files.

Everything does have a Rename function, also Copy & Move.

AFAIK...

1. no
3. no

2, accessed, is mentioned here, date accessed.
So under XP, I would think it would be common & expected that DA is changed (by "Everything", as would any utility that happened to access a file). Less likely in OS > XP.

[therube]

Does you backup program not log what it backed up?
And can't you use that to look for "unanticipated" items that were included?

[therube]

In case it matters, what OS/file system on the Network drive?
And how are you indexing it in Everything?

[paulsmachine]

I'm sure it does I'm just not sure how to extract in a summary format that will tell me on exactly which volume the changes are taking place.

The Windows Server 2003 is NTFS.

It is being indexed but only by client Win7/8/10 machines via mapped drives. I am not doing any indexing on the server itself.

[void]

Sorry for the vague subject what I'm wanting to know, does the act of indexing network shared files ever provide the option to:

1. Alter date modified time
2. Alter date accessed time
3. Alter archive bits

No to 1, 2 and 3.

Everything does not open a handle to files when indexing folders.
When indexing, Everything uses FindFirstFile to find files.
When monitoring Everything uses ReadDirectoryChanges. Neither should be accessing files directly.

When the user is viewing the folder index results, Everything may indirectly open a handle to a file for the icon, thumbnail or preview information.

Perhaps one user has the preview pane open, I've seen preview handlers modify files (eg: previewing a eml file). The user would have to view many files for this to be noticeable..
Could also be the icon or thumbnail handler. However, this is unlikely.

[paulsmachine]

Thanks for the feedback. Its probably something else just not sure what that something else may be. Thanks again.