Windows 10: File search fails to find files in directories on USB drive Windows 10

I'm going to save various thousands of words by inserting images.


First, these are the drives.




Searches on M: don't work. Note the indicated files in M:\Music.





Here's the result of a search of this directory. Note that Windows did not find any of the four files. Using a capital A rather than small a makes no difference.





Doing a similar search in Z:\HOYLE





This time there are results.





Here are the Indexing Options. I did a refresh and let it sit overnight to be sure it had enough time to finish.





I did the DISM thing...





I followed that with the SFC thing.





I then did another search in M:\Music with zero files found.


Now what??

I should not that from time to time, the search works. I'd estimate it at one day a week for two or three searches.


Do I just have a supremely lazy Windows 10???

:)

 

Stored files in Hard Drive

You can use Windows search. Just search for *.* on a desired drive. When list is done just arrange them by size LOL.

You can do it via command line as well and make an output text file showing files and their sizes (but without arrangement)

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

credit to Lifehacker.

 

Directory Size Utility

Change Log v1.6

• Resoved an issue where selecting "Detail" from the "View" drop down would cause duplicates.
• New "Peek" feature!
  • Selecting something in the Directory column in the Directory view (Left window) while holding "z" will peek into that directory!
  • Double clicking the Directory column in the directory view(Left window) while holding "z" will add the folder.
• New color coded feature in both Size columns for Detailed view.
• Exporting to Excel will now Export both Folder (left) and File (right) window. In the excel file the Folder, and File window will be on different sheets.
• Add a feature to export to older excel 97-2003 (.xls) from the file/export drop down window.

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