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I'm a big fan of the original project, so I'm curious what the changes amount to. (It claims there are performance improvements, but nothing detailed.)
by genjipress 5y ago
I'm a big fan of the original project, so I'm curious what the changes amount to. (It claims there are performance improvements, but nothing detailed.)
- yarone 5y agoMe too, been using it for 10 years.
- Goz3rr 5y agoA long time ago I switched to WizTree, which does the same thing except it basically only takes ~5 seconds to do it for an entire drive.
- zaroth 5y agoBy using cached NTFS metadata instead of actually querying the allocation tables I presume?
- dspillett 5y agoYep. Their related product wizfile uses the same trick for fast search by filename/path. Obviously doesn't work for non-local file locations.
- gregoryl 5y agoWizTree cheats (in a good way) and uses the NTFS MFT to find files. Another tool "Everything" uses the same idea, to search for file names etc in an absurdly fast manner.
- kashkhan 5y agoI miss Everything on MacOS
- cloogshicer 5y agoThere is HoudahSpot. Not free though.
- nevster 5y agoThere's Disk Inventory X
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- sokoloff 5y agoDisk Inventory X has been a little hit or miss for me. Works OK on my two Macs (Catalina), but can’t index the whole (128GB?) drive on my wife’s MacBook Air (Mojave). Just crashes at some point.
- dspillett 5y agoUnexpectedly, searching the generic word `Everything` find exactly what I was looking for.
- johnnyanmac 5y agoYeah, not the most SEO friendly name. I'm 99% sure the comment is referring to Voidtool's "Everything": https://www.voidtools.com/ https://www.voidtools.com/ It and WinDirStat are some of the first things I install on any new instance of a computer. But I may check out this fork and Whiztree for other inspiration.
- Dylan16807 5y agoI think you read the comment backwards.
- andai 5y agoThe developer of WizTree also makes WizFile for instant fast file search. https://antibody-software.com/wizfile/ https://antibody-software.com/wizfile/
- abrookewood 5y agoEverything is incredibly fast. Still blows me away that MS haven't implemented something like this in their search.
- mrandish 5y agoVoidtool's Everything is one of those things I pretty much can't use a PC without. It's just stunningly useful and performant. MSFT's file search is so slow in comparison it feels almost like a malicious prank.
- formerly_proven 5y ago> so slow it feels like a malicious prank Windows Explorer -> Sort by date Unfathomable how someone thought that was a good idea.
- ComodoHacker 5y agoWhat do you mean? I sort by (reverse) date almost everywhere where I look at files.
- formerly_proven 5y agoThe "date" column and sort order in Explorer is a "deep state metadata inspection" kind of deal. For ordinary files this makes no difference, it's the same as Date modified, but sorting by date in a folder full of media files generally ends badly and in any case takes a long, long time until Explorer has parsed every last one of them. Explorer also seems to be rather unable to cache the results of this operation.
- imtringued 5y agoI am on Linux and I had to use updatedb recently and I thought, this crap is so damn slow I want to use Everything again.
- nar002 5y agoPretty sure they said it's because it doesn't support permissions, so you could see anything on your hard drive, that's why they don't support it and do indexing instead
- Casteil 5y agoWizTree has been my go-to for a long time
- sgtlaggy 5y agoI've also been using WizTree for quite a while, but recently learned WinDirStat scans the filesystem instead of trusting the NTFS metadata because it can sometimes be incorrect(?) and is a bit tricky due to poor documentation. The WDS developer actually addressed this in AWDS's issues 4[1] and 19[2] a few years ago, and even said he's contemplating supporting the MFT but it seems he hasn't gotten around to it. 1: https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat/issues/4#issuecomment-81891153 https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat/issues/4#issuecomme... 2: https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat/issues/19#issuecomment-374919072 https://github.com/ariccio/altWinDirStat/issues/19#issuecomm...