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I use Desktop frequently. It's often the only way I can find things on my computer. "Desktop: In the last few years, there’s been a huge shift from local to cl
by Major_Grooves 15y ago
I use Desktop frequently. It's often the only way I can find things on my computer.
"Desktop: In the last few years, there’s been a huge shift from local to cloud-based storage and computing"
OK, but I'm pretty sure most files are still stored locally on most computers. I've barely ever used Windows own search feature. I hope it's up to scratch.
- abraham 15y agoThe only local files I have are the ones I haven't had time to put in the cloud yet.
- trafficlight 15y agoBut even if I have everything in Dropbox, I still need to search for documents locally.
- sliverstorm 15y agoWindow's search feature, at least if you're on 7 and you let it index what you want to search, is perfectly fine.
- arethuza 15y agoYMMV - I loathe the search in Windows 7 - which (apart from the "improvements" to Explorer) is a rather decent operating system.
- RossM 15y agoIt works for me, I don't like the 3-5 seconds of warm-up time before each search though. I mainly use it for quick-launching applications though and Launchy does a much better job of it.
- baddox 15y agoFor Windows, I recommend Everything. See this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2956146 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2956146 http://www.voidtools.com/ http://www.voidtools.com/