Can't get Everything to work properly on Windows 10

[Kashim]

Hi. I've been using Everything for years on my old Windows 7 machine. I had no issues. Recently I got a new computer with Windows 10 on it and I'm having some problems. I have two mapped network drives R:\ and X:\ and Everything will not read either one no matter what I try.

Under Options, Indexes, Folders when I click Rescan nothing happens. If I remove R:\ and X:\from the folders list then I cannot add it back again. When I click to add a folder it can see all local drives, but cannot see any mapped drives at all. Every other program/app can see the mapped drives.

When I first ran Everything on Windows 10 it asked me if I wanted to run it as Administrator and I chose yes. But now if I start the program normally or as Administrator, it makes no difference. I'm literally sitting here with a Windows 7 computer on one side and a Windows 10 on the other side, and all the settings are exactly the same, but Everything cannot see any of the mapped drives on the Windows 10 computer. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

[edit] I run 3 different copies of Everything using the Everything.exe -instance "2" shortcut command. I have never run Everything's service before. Would I need to run 3 different services or just one? And would it work with my -instance shortcut command?

Also, the mapped drives were mapped using an Administrator account, which is the same account I'm using to run Everything. It is the only account on the Windows 10 computer, the same as it was on Windows 7.

I tried every combination of "Run as administrator" and "Everything Service" and no matter what I do they cannot see my mapped drives.

[therube]

(IMO, always better, safer, to use the Everything Service.)


I gather that Windows Explorer does see the mapped drives?
What type of device are they on?

The drives are not NTFS?
The drives are not on an XP system?
(Win10 / XP communications can be problematic by default, & are less secure when they do work.)

Anything different if you use UNC paths instead of the mapped drive letter, \\NAS\X?


One service should serve all the instances.


When you say "administrator account", are you actually logged in to the Administrator account, or are running an account with administrative privileges?

[void]

Please make sure Everything is installed correctly:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the General tab on the left.
• Check Store settings and data in %APPDATA%\Everything
• Check Everything Service. (Please make sure this is tick-checked and not square-checked)
• Uncheck Run as administrator.
• Click OK.
• Exit Everything (right click the Everything tray icon and click Exit).
• Restart Everything.