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Haven't tried this one, thanks. There's also Everything [0] which is usually my favorite search for Windows. Fast and supports regex. [0] https://www.voidtools

• rococode 4y ago
  Everything search is incredible, for me it serves nearly instant searches for 15TB+ of data without any trouble. I think the secret sauce is a background service which continuously updates the file index. I also like WinDirStat a lot for Windows file management, which is not really for search but gives a great view of disk usage.
  • delta_p_delta_x 4y ago
    > I think the secret sauce is a background service which continuously updates the file index Actually, the secret sauce to both WizTree's and Everything's speed is the NTFS Master File Table (MFT) [1]. [1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/master-file-table https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maste...
    • hackrnusr 4y ago
      Is there an open source analog of voidtools Everything yet? Have never been able to find anything.
      • pynappo 4y ago
        I've seen flow launcher recommended but haven't personally tried it out yet
        • hackrnusr 4y ago
          Thanks for the suggestion. Probably worth benchmarking against fzf/ripgrep when I can find the time.
      • kid64 4y ago
        There's this, which I haven't tried: https://github.com/ChrisS85/FastFileSearch https://github.com/ChrisS85/FastFileSearch SwiftSearch is excellent and uses the same tech: https://sourceforge.net/projects/swiftsearch/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/swiftsearch/
    • yonz 4y ago
      So why do the stock implementations suck?