Folders searching slowly.....green bar along the top...folders reading as empty

Hi

first post here

I've had this problem intermittently and thought it was just a random quirk, but in the last week its now doing it all the time.
I open up a folder, and nothing will appear, even though I KNOW there are files in it, and the green bar will start reading the folder contents and take a very long time, and it will say "this folder is empty "

I turned off indexing completely, to see if it would make a difference, but its just the same
I also did the switch to "general content" thing, but that doesn't work either

Im running windows 8 64bit on a 2.8ghz machine with 4gb of Ram

Would really appreciate the help as I had planned to finalize my album and get it uploaded today, but if I cant see the files, I can't get it done.

Thanks in advance.

 

what is worrying me, is that its even doing this when i try to view the control panel , but not every time.
I was having a few problems deleting what I think were corrupt wav files, and it seems to happen most frequently in folders which have wav files in them.
Im not sure if this is connected to the new audio interface I just installed , or is connected to something else.

Also, when I try to "delete and rebuild" the index, it stops at 1,088 , but today it was 1,089

 

I would start by running SFC to see if there is an error in Windows.
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/3047-sfc-scannow-command-run-windows-8-a.html

 

The audio interface I installed is called the Native Instruments Komplete Audio 6 . I have the latest drivers from the native instruments website

 

Hi, I doubt the Native instruments is causing this as you have already said there were problems before installing it. I suggest taking a look at doing a system file check as RichM said, just click on his link and follow the instructions there.

Nev.

 

I did have rare problems with the same thing before installing the NI interface, but nothing like what they are now.
Im really not good at command prompt stuff....seems so archaic, and that example was done on windows 98....17 years ago. I have windows 8.

 

SFC is still very relevant and even better than it was in the old days as it now knows where to find the correct files to repair the system.
I know Native instruments quite well and cannot see why it could be the cause of this issue unless there are system files corrupted.
It might actually be a good idea to do a system restore to the time before you installed the Native instruments software and do the SFC at that point, if it does repair things, then try a reinstall of Native Instruments.

Nev.

 

The SFC page wont work for me. Giving me an error 403 page
This search thing seems to be getting worse now, and is affecting all my vst plugins within FL studio.
Its supposed to show them in a list, but now they are all gone from view , even though I touched nothing.
I can open the VSTs another way, but I dont understand what has gone wrong with the search or why its affecting FL studio.
I've done scans with Avast and Malware bytes, and they have both come up with nothing.
Can someone please help me ?

 

Ok...I ran sfc/scannow

It did a verification phase, and afterwards said

"windows resource protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them. details are included in the CBS.Log windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.Log. For example C;\windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.Log. Note that logging is currently not supported in offline servicing scenarios "

What now ?

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Try running the sfc /scannow at least three more times, sometimes it can fix corrupt files on the second or third try.

If after that it still says files are corrupt let us know. Also do you have a Windows 8 or 8.1 disk? If you have or can borrow one it can be used to perform a repair of any unfixable files.

Nev.

 

Ok, i'll try running it another 3 times.
I dont have a system disk cos it was already installed on the PC when I bought it, and its "supposed" to be self-repairable as all the necessary install files are on a protected partition ( so im told ), but i've had problems with "preparing automatic repair" and a refresh windows option that won't actually refresh, so I wish I had a disk.

I haven't been happy with the latency with this audio interface, so im actually on my way to the store to return it and get an Akai EIE pro interface instead, so if the interface is something to do with this, that will maybe fix something.

 

dism and online worked, but it didnt recognise cleanup-image as a command

 

I tried that again. It says the cleanup-image option is unknown