Evaluator column: File Count Total Bug

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I have an evaluator column. It's the total file count. Made it just to have a shorter column name.
(Total = the total number of files in the parent and all subfolders, I'm assuming). It's bugging out. See the sizes of these folders and how there is "zero files" in them.
When refreshing the lister I get some numbers then it snaps back to zero.

File Count

Column Settings
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This is happening in various places. The folder count evaluator column seems to be working fine. It's just this "file count total" that's not working.

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My Everything index was messed up. Don't know what I was thinking with those settings.
I fixed it but the file counting still isn't fixed.

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Unless that function doesn't actually show the total file count in all subfolders, as I'm assuming it does. Otherwise I don't know why sometimes I'm getting a zero count on folders that do have files in them.

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Does anyone know why the "file count total" column displays "zero" inaccurately?

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Try turning on “refresh if file changes”.

Failing that, try debugging what’s happening using the Evaluator’s output function to see which values are being passed in.

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I enabled 'refresh if file changes'. I watched the file counts show the correct number, then snap to zero, then show the correct number again. Then some folders it does what it was doing before: showing the correct number then snapping to zero.

I tried using the factory count types, which work fine, but they refuse to limit their max widths.
Factory Counts

Don't know how to "use the evaluator output". I tried changing their category from Evaluator to Name and Path, and that seems to have fixed them. Fingers crossed.
Name And Path

Just to note: The reason the folder and file count was different before, is because I accidentally had the folder count on "dircount" instead of "dircounttotal". So it wasn't counting the totals, like the "file count total" was.