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matthews2 | 1 year ago

More MFT goodness: the file search tool Everything (https://www.voidtools.com/)

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jug|1 year ago

It's crazy how the Windows Search Indexer still doesn't use MFT.

It doesn't even bloody support network drives so there's no such reason.

rezolva|1 year ago

I am building an advanced filemanager (FileNinja) for Windows with full integrated everything search & query. you have the option of saving bookmarks to virtual folders that consist of everything searches. Instant directory sizes, tags, custom file descriptions for ntfs. Anyone interested? https://youtu.be/JREufgkf5pk?si=sP05UCOrskpX8OTq

Multicomp|1 year ago

I'm interested! Great marketing video by the way, a good example of using AI-powered voiceovers to level up the one-man-marketing polish capabilities.

walt_wu|1 year ago

Cool, but what is the biggest feature compared to Everything and Listary?

jron|1 year ago

Do you have a git repo to follow?

SuperHeavy256|1 year ago

haha I like the voiceover, the video is fun

xen2xen1|1 year ago

So that's why Everything is so fast. Nice.

LelouBil|1 year ago

I want to like Everything but every time I start it up it takes 30 sec to 1 minute to update it's index

xnx|1 year ago

You can set it to run on startup or as a service so it updates the index in the background.

naikrovek|1 year ago

You should not be starting it when you want to search. You should open it when you log in, and leave it in the tray. It will do a full index on launch then subscribe to filesystem notifications to keep itself up to date for as long as it’s open.

Do that and it’s alarmingly fast and responsive except for the minute or two right after launch.

benjaminpv|1 year ago

Contrasting seemingly all the other responses to this, I use it the same way you do (only opening it when needed) and I'm fine with the delay: even at its slowest rebuilding the index and searching is faster than the in-built windows Search.

Nexxxeh|1 year ago

Uninstall, re-install as a service which may now be default.

Saris|1 year ago

It should be starting at boot if you installed it as a service, so the indexing will be done then. After that opening and searching is instant.