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Another great tool is Everything https://www.voidtools.com https://www.voidtools.com for Windows. It's searching files with an ease that you start question you

Another great tool is Everything https://www.voidtools.com https://www.voidtools.com for Windows. It's searching files with an ease that you start question yourself why windows search is so fucking retarded

copperx 9y ago
Everything doesn't index file contents, which makes the problem of searching significantly simpler. It does require the human to remember filenames. Offloading the problem to the user isn't the greatest idea.
- ghusbands 9y ago
  You may be underestimating how bad Windows Search is - finding files by name is something it is inordinately slow at, and Everything is a good solution.
- yazan94 9y ago
  So Windows indexes file contents too? I never knew (nor tried) that. TIL
Stratoscope 9y ago
Everything is really great; anyone who uses Windows should try it out. I have 1.3 million files on my C: drive, and it can find any of them (or any matching subset) as fast as I can type. It has a ton of options, but I have most of them on the defaults. Here are the ones I like to customize in Tools/Options: In General, turn on "Check for updates at startup". ("Start Everything at system startup" should be on by default.) In View, turn on "Show row mouseover". In Keyboard, set "New window Hotkey" to Win+Alt+F (or any other key combo you like, but this one is pretty convenient). And related to the current topic, Everything does have a CLI and an SDK.
bergoid 9y ago
I just tried it out. Really great tool. Thanks!
galfarragem 9y ago
I used Everything attached to several launchers (Keypirinha(py), Wox(c#), Cerebro(js), Farr, Launchy, Zazu) before finding Listary, a very light launcher (30K on Win7) that does also fast file search (at least with a reasonable number of files). Other good options are Keypirinha (with a python powered calculator) or Wox + Everything. Although Wox solution uses easily 150K memory.
krabpaaltje 9y ago
When I used Windows this tool was always installed. Now I use osx and sadly finding files seems to be an unsolved problem...
guftagu 9y ago
I'll just quote the Lego Movie here, "Everything is awesome"

copperx 9y ago

Everything doesn't index file contents, which makes the problem of searching significantly simpler. It does require the human to remember filenames. Offloading the problem to the user isn't the greatest idea.

ghusbands 9y ago
You may be underestimating how bad Windows Search is - finding files by name is something it is inordinately slow at, and Everything is a good solution.
yazan94 9y ago
So Windows indexes file contents too? I never knew (nor tried) that. TIL

Stratoscope 9y ago

Everything is really great; anyone who uses Windows should try it out. I have 1.3 million files on my C: drive, and it can find any of them (or any matching subset) as fast as I can type. It has a ton of options, but I have most of them on the defaults. Here are the ones I like to customize in Tools/Options: In General, turn on "Check for updates at startup". ("Start Everything at system startup" should be on by default.) In View, turn on "Show row mouseover". In Keyboard, set "New window Hotkey" to Win+Alt+F (or any other key combo you like, but this one is pretty convenient). And related to the current topic, Everything does have a CLI and an SDK.

bergoid 9y ago

I just tried it out. Really great tool. Thanks!

galfarragem 9y ago

I used Everything attached to several launchers (Keypirinha(py), Wox(c#), Cerebro(js), Farr, Launchy, Zazu) before finding Listary, a very light launcher (30K on Win7) that does also fast file search (at least with a reasonable number of files). Other good options are Keypirinha (with a python powered calculator) or Wox + Everything. Although Wox solution uses easily 150K memory.

krabpaaltje 9y ago

When I used Windows this tool was always installed. Now I use osx and sadly finding files seems to be an unsolved problem...

guftagu 9y ago

I'll just quote the Lego Movie here, "Everything is awesome"