Due to how fast and thought out the Everything search, syntax and the Everything GUI is, I am experimenting with instances to see if it can accommodate various use cases I have, that are unrelated to file system searching, and will instead use file lists to feed data into an everything instance.
I have two questions, and I would appreciate any answers for them;
Through a instance's gui, how does one turn of file-system indexing just for that instance? I ask because the only solution I could find is going through every sub page of the "indexes" (options dialog) and disabling every drive, which is not ideal. Is there a single button or command that could do this with?
And lastly, when an instance is about to be created via command line, it would be very useful to have a means to disable its file-system indexing capabilities from the start. Currently as soon as I do;A fresh everything instance gui window pops up and its indexing my file system, before I could go to options > indexing. I also tried;but its still indexing, the status bar shows the green indexing progress bar and the file list is eventually populated with files.
am on
I have two questions, and I would appreciate any answers for them;
Through a instance's gui, how does one turn of file-system indexing just for that instance? I ask because the only solution I could find is going through every sub page of the "indexes" (options dialog) and disabling every drive, which is not ideal. Is there a single button or command that could do this with?
And lastly, when an instance is about to be created via command line, it would be very useful to have a means to disable its file-system indexing capabilities from the start. Currently as soon as I do;
Code:
everything -instance myNewInstanceCode:
everything -instance myNewInstance_2 -no-db am on
Version 1.5.0.1399a (x64)Statistics: Posted by Ralf_Reddings — Fri Sep 26, 2025 4:49 pm
