"Explorer" plugin can't search some folders

[MW-J97]

Hi there,

Thanks for this great app. It really changed my life.

I have an issue with "Explorer" plugin.
When I search folders in C:, it doesn't find them.
In indexing options, there are always excludes in search that I can't get rid of them.
Can those exclude be the cause of this issue??

Window 10 [Version 10.0.19044.1526]

[deefrawley]

Hi. Are the things you are searching for located in the excluded directories?
To change what is and isn't excluded click the Modify button and next to the displayed drive/folder checkbox, just to the right, you should see a greater than sign >. Click that and it expands the sub directories and you can change as needed (it's not easy to see unless you are looking for iti)

[MW-J97]

I know how to chick folders to be searched, but I can't find those exclude folders.
The folders I want to search are located in AppData folder. I think AppData is a hidden folder.
Can Explorer plugin search in those hidden files??

[MW-J97]

I installed "Everything" plugin and it's so good in search, but it doesn't have a great feature in "Explorer". Explorer can show the files and folders inside the searched folder, but Everything open the folder directly.
If there is a way to make Everything make the same thing, it'll be perfect.

[deefrawley]

Just to confirm:

I do have Windows Explorer set to show hidden files and directories and I don't know if this affects what you see in the Indexing options.
I'm not sure what the Data and CSC folders are from your original screenshot. They don't seem to be standard Windows folders but I could be wrong.

[MW-J97]

I also made Windows Explorer to show hidden files, but nothing happened. It still can't search those folders.

[deefrawley]

Yeah I can confirm - I enabled the AppData folder, did a full reindex, restarted Flow and can't search for anything in the AppData folder. @jjw24 @taooceros is this expected behaviour?

[Garulf]

Odd, I don't have any issues?

[taooceros]

Yeah I can confirm - I enabled the AppData folder, did a full reindex, restarted Flow and can't search for anything in the AppData folder. @jjw24 @taooceros is this expected behaviour?

Possible that some of the folder inside appdata is under windows index, while the other are not. I remember the behavior is to use index as much as possible?

[MW-J97]

Possible that some of the folder inside appdata is under windows index, while the other are not. I remember the behavior is to use index as much as possible?

How can I use index?? And is this a solution for the issue??

[taooceros]

Possible that some of the folder inside appdata is under windows index, while the other are not. I remember the behavior is to use index as much as possible?

How can I use index?? And is this a solution for the issue??

One alternate is to index the whole folder, or exclude the whole folder in windows index.
I think we will need to adjust the behavior for this.

[MW-J97]

One alternate is to index the whole folder, or exclude the whole folder in windows index. I think we will need to adjust the behavior for this.

As above screenshot, I indexed the whole "C" except the "Data" folder, I can't find it.
Or is there another way to index the whole folder??

[taooceros]

Huh then just remove the exclusion of the Data folder in the index? It should be able to index everything except network folder (onedrive etc.).

[taooceros]

I installed "Everything" plugin and it's so good in search, but it doesn't have a great feature in "Explorer". Explorer can show the files and folders inside the searched folder, but Everything open the folder directly.
If there is a way to make Everything make the same thing, it'll be perfect.

I am thinking about this before, but probably it will need some new api, which seems not easy to be done due to the current implementation because Plugins are separate from each other.

[MW-J97]

Huh then just remove the exclusion of the Data folder in the index? It should be able to index everything except network folder (onedrive etc.).

I can't remove "Data" from exclusion. I can't find it.