| Re: Missing files in index and other weirdness when updating the index. [message #265 is a reply to message #264] |
Thu, 05 March 2015 10:14   |
FoxTrot Engineering
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Registered: April 2020
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Arthur Elsenaar wrote:
> I then noticed known files to be
> missing in the index. I select Update Folder in Index.. and point to the
> containing folder. It finds another ~4000 files which got indexed fine and
> are searchable. I run through some more folders in the same way and it
> finds even more!
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> Now, when I select Update Index Entirely from the menu, it re-indexes, but
> when finished, it drops back to the first number of files in the index and
> I have lost again the missing files...
What you describe can happen if, for some reason, the indexer skips all the contents of a folder when building or updating the whole index. When you do a manual partial update on a subfolder of the skipped folder, it gets successfully indexed, until you update the whole index and the originally skipped folder is skipped again.
Here are some cases where a folder can be skipped:
- you have added it to the "skipping these subfolders" list
- this folder is hidden in the Finder (or should be hidden, in case the Finder has been configured to show hidden files); this is the case for filenames that name begin with a dot, or when the file or folder has an "invisible" attribute (unless if "also index hidden files and packages contents" is checked)
- folders shown by the Finder as a simple files, like applications (.app) and other kinds of bundles or packages (unless if "also index hidden files and packages contents" is checked)
Maybe some folders in your NAS have an attribute or specificity that make FoxTrot skip them... FoxTrot does not follow symbolic links, but I don't think this is your case, as the partial update should have not worked in this case. Can you determine which folder has been skipped (ie, none of its content has been indexed)?
Kind regards
Jérôme - CTM Engineering
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