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Agreed, I use Everything at least 10 times a day. Not only are searches instantaneous, but it doesn't even need to use a lot of time/compute to build the index

Agreed, I use Everything at least 10 times a day. Not only are searches instantaneous, but it doesn't even need to use a lot of time/compute to build the index because its using the built-in NTFS index. Why Microsoft doesn't expose a similar search tool is beyond confusing to me.

rasz 5y ago
>I believe what you’re doing is describing something that might be considered an entire doctoral research project in _insert whatever_ as “extremely simple” somewhat combatively. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362 https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362 also https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1487228574608211969 https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1487228574608211969 "Nuanced communication usually doesn't work at scale" aka Nobody at Microsoft is able to do more than one thing at a time anymore.
agumonkey 5y ago
It's totally absurd to develop the foundation for such a massively fast and useful tool yet have horrendous search features in your graphical user shell. Searching is a human right (only half joking)
listenallyall 5y ago
I've made the same comment before -- Everything might be the best piece of Windows software ever written. And it still blows my mind that MS hasn't purchased it for $10 million and made it an official part of Windows.
jodrellblank 5y ago
I don't know, but Everything uses the NTFS index and there isn't always one (e.g. REFS). To do its work, Everything needs admin rights and scrapes every file, where Windows Explorer has to respect file and folder permissions to determine what you can and can't see. Windows' search will also try and show you files in offline files caches, OneDrive caches, etc. without showing the real path, Everything is happy to show you "copies" of things in the real paths even if they're not human readable. Windows' search integrates with Windows Server and is able to query a fileserver to use the server's index and show the results locally. Windows' search has plugins for filetype handlers such as Office and PDF to search file contents. Windows' search all to often seems to try and track most recently used things, Everything doesn't. Windows has hooks for displaying files which have been moved to archive storage in an enterprise (like it does for OneDrive cloud files) and showing them as if they were present, pulled from archive storage when accessed. The right people and incentives could surely make the search a lot better than it is now. 'Everything' is amazing.

rasz 5y ago

>I believe what you’re doing is describing something that might be considered an entire doctoral research project in _insert whatever_ as “extremely simple” somewhat combatively. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362 https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362 also https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1487228574608211969 https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1487228574608211969 "Nuanced communication usually doesn't work at scale" aka Nobody at Microsoft is able to do more than one thing at a time anymore.

agumonkey 5y ago

It's totally absurd to develop the foundation for such a massively fast and useful tool yet have horrendous search features in your graphical user shell. Searching is a human right (only half joking)

listenallyall 5y ago

I've made the same comment before -- Everything might be the best piece of Windows software ever written. And it still blows my mind that MS hasn't purchased it for $10 million and made it an official part of Windows.

jodrellblank 5y ago

I don't know, but Everything uses the NTFS index and there isn't always one (e.g. REFS). To do its work, Everything needs admin rights and scrapes every file, where Windows Explorer has to respect file and folder permissions to determine what you can and can't see. Windows' search will also try and show you files in offline files caches, OneDrive caches, etc. without showing the real path, Everything is happy to show you "copies" of things in the real paths even if they're not human readable. Windows' search integrates with Windows Server and is able to query a fileserver to use the server's index and show the results locally. Windows' search has plugins for filetype handlers such as Office and PDF to search file contents. Windows' search all to often seems to try and track most recently used things, Everything doesn't. Windows has hooks for displaying files which have been moved to archive storage in an enterprise (like it does for OneDrive cloud files) and showing them as if they were present, pulled from archive storage when accessed. The right people and incentives could surely make the search a lot better than it is now. 'Everything' is amazing.