[robkody]

EDIT: SOLVED.  There is an option in Everything to 'Automatically include new fixed and removable drives' which were unchecked.

re: Everything(E) Version 1.4.1.935 (x64), TinyMediaManager(TMM)

OK, so haven't used any Kodi or associated products due to limitation on number of actors. Also no JAVA install. Have used E for a year with no probs.  E is a sweet little realtime file search tool I have used to help maintain my AV collection.

Having read that TMM might allow my full collection to be mapped, I installed latest JAVA and TMM on Win8.1 last week.

Every time I use TMM and E concurrently, I get random freezes in TMM and occasional loss of drive access requiring a hard boot with removing external drives due to boot file start-up errors.  (I cannot remember needing a hard boot in years)  Also, E, which normally refreshes in realtime, does not refresh.

TMM seems to work fine without E running and vice-versa.

[mlaggner]

Maybe you hit a memory bottleneck... I've barely seen that Java is able to cause a hard lock in any system for years - apart from eating up much memory (especially on Java when the OOM killer kicks in)..
Which Java version did you install? I'd suggest to install either Java 11 or 14/15 from AdoptOpenJDK nowadays (https://adoptopenjdk.net/releases.html just take the JRE, the JDK is not needed just for running an application)

[robkody]

There is an option in Everything in NTFS and reFS tabs to 'Automatically include new fixed and removable drives' which were unchecked to fix the issue.