Mike,

          I posted the link, voidtools.com, in the first post and there it is 
again.  

          You ask, "can it search folders or different drives and folders 
within them?," and the only way to answer that is, "Yes and no."  As its name 
implies, Everything searches everything on a given drive that you have it set 
up to monitor, but, you can choose to exclude either hidden files and folders 
and/or system files and folders and/or specific folders you specify in the 
exclude list.  The only one of these options that's enabled by default is 
looking at the exclude list, which is empty by default at the outset, so it 
actually searches Everything on a drive.

           It appears to only index and search NTFS or ReFS file system types.  
I see no support for FAT32, but I haven't had a machine with FAT32 on it for 
years now.  You can also set it up to index removable volumes that use either 
one of the previously mentioned file system types.

           Everything is, to put it mildly, highly configurable.  I've been 
using it in its "out of the box" configuration for some years now.  The only 
customization I've done was to include one of my backup drives in the index at 
one point, which I regretted very shortly after having done so.  If I wanted to 
try that again I'd probably go with the "Automatically include new removable 
volumes" option to see if the search results for the removable volume would 
appear or disappear depending on whether its connected or not.  If you add it 
to the main index those results will appear all the time, whether the drive is 
connected or not at the moment, and that's a PITA when it's not there.

            Since every thumb/flash/jump drive I've ever dealt with, as well as 
SD Cards and similar, are still formatted as FAT32 by default these are not 
indexable by Everything.  However, Windows search can be used to find what 
you're looking for on these drives.

Brian

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