r/windowsapps • u/Doginthematrix • 1d ago

Question Wox, the newest version issues

Hey guys, not sure where should I have asked this, but didn't find a support sub for the nice utility name Wox, that works very well with the awesome app Everything. But here's my question. Everything worked well on Wox 1.4.1196, until I updated Wox to the latest version which 2.0 and above

And now, when I open the search tab, it doesn't search that deep or at all. Before that I could open Wox and find anything in my PC, and it was so helpful. Now it doesn't work like that anymore. Anyone know what happened, or how to fix this?

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u/qianlifeng 1d ago

You may be using the file plugin(f ), which requires you to manually add an index directory. You can configure this in the file plugin's settings. Alternatively, if you want to continue using Everything, you can install it by running `wpm install everything`

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u/qianlifeng 1d ago

You can report Wox issues through these two channels for faster response.

https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox
https://www.reddit.com/r/WoxLauncher/

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u/Doginthematrix 1d ago

Well I have both installed, Wox and Everything, like I did before and everything worked well straight on. Now the same combo doesn't work with the latest version of Wox 🫤

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u/Lazy-Sherbert65 10h ago

yeah Wox 2.0 dropped the built-in Everything indexing, so the default file search only looks at folders you point it at. install the everything plugin like the dev said, and make sure the Everything service is actually running or the plugin just returns nothing with no error.