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Everything is incredibly fast. Still blows me away that MS haven't implemented something like this in their search.
by abrookewood 5y ago
Everything 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
- imtringued 5y agoThe operating system doesn't need permissions to see anything on your hard drive and it is the operating system that is enforcing the permissions so it can filter the results afterwards. Also, an index can be stale and show files whose permissions have changed that you shouldn't be able to see so the permissions have to be checked on the search results either way.