Index

Five tabs, in order: Local Drives, Network Drives, WSL (only shown once a distribution is detected), Folders, and Exclusion Rules.

Local Drives

• Status card summarizing how many drives and items are indexed, plus a Rebuild Index button for a full re-scan.
• One row per local drive: an enable/disable checkbox, drive name, file system (NTFS/ReFS/...), current status, indexed item count, and a per-row Rebuild/Remove action — plus a Stop action while a rebuild is running, for every drive except true NTFS (its scan has no safe point to interrupt).
• NTFS and ReFS drives track changes continuously through the Windows USN Journal; other local file systems (FAT32, exFAT, ...) have no journal to read, so they're watched for changes directly instead. Either way, a manual rebuild is rarely needed, but is there if something looks out of sync — and if one gets interrupted (stopped, or the app/service restarts mid-scan), the next rebuild picks up from where it left off instead of starting over.

Searching keeps working while a rebuild is running. The drive being rebuilt goes on answering from its previous index until the new one is ready, and the other drives are unaffected — a rebuild never leaves you with an empty result list.

Network Drives

• Same status card and Rebuild Index button as Local Drives.
• One row per mapped network drive: enable checkbox, path/name, status (Indexing / Ready / Cached / Failed / Pending / Connected), item count, and a Refresh Mode dropdown:
  • Manual — only refreshes on demand (via Rebuild Index).
  • Every 15 minutes
  • Every hour
  • Daily

Network shares don't expose a change journal the way local NTFS volumes do, which is why they're refreshed on a schedule instead of in real time.

WSL

Only shown once at least one WSL distribution is detected — same shape as Network Drives (status card, Rebuild Index button, and one row per distribution with status/item count/Refresh Mode). Distributions are detected automatically; there's no manual "add" step.

Folders

Index arbitrary individual folders instead of a whole drive or share — useful for indexing just one subtree without pulling in everything else on that volume.

• An Add Folder button opens a folder picker; a Rebuild Index button re-scans every folder in the list.
• One row per added folder: enable checkbox, path, status, item count, and the same Refresh Mode dropdown (Manual / Every 15 minutes / Every hour / Daily) as network drives — folders are scanned on a schedule rather than tracked continuously, the same way network shares are.
• The folder picker also accepts a UNC network share path (e.g. \\server\share, or a subfolder inside it) browsed to via Network in the picker — useful for indexing a single share or subtree without adding the whole server as a mapped network drive.

Exclusion Rules

Three sub-tabs, each with the same shape: a single-entry textbox + Add button, a list of existing rules (each editable/deletable), and a bulk multi-line textbox with Generate from List / Apply to List buttons for editing everything at once.

• Path Exclusions — full paths or environment variables (e.g. D:\Cache, %ProgramData%).
• Glob Wildcards — * (any characters in a filename), ? (single character), ** (recursive directories). Examples: *.tmp, **/node_modules/**, bin/**.
• Regex Patterns — arbitrary regular expressions matched against the path/filename (partial match). Examples: ^\. (hidden files), ~$ (Office temp files), \.git\.

Exclusions apply to local, network, and folder indexing alike, and network drives/folders re-scan automatically after you apply exclusion changes.