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“Everything” is a must have for me. It’s shocking that Windows doesn’t come with local search that works.
by dave8088 3y ago
“Everything” is a must have for me. It’s shocking that Windows doesn’t come with local search that works.
- sphars 3y agoMicrosoft has added basically the same functionality to Power Toys, called Run[0], taking heavy inspiration from Everything. But yeah this should be a built-in utility. [0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/run https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/run
- zacmps 3y agoDoes it read the ntfs journal? Because that's really what makes everything, everything. It makes me wish I used a journaling filesystem on Linux too.
- lelanthran 3y agoI'm pretty certain that everything doesn't use the NTFS journal[1]. My understanding is that everything uses the file open hooks provided for antivirus to maintain the index, which is why it appears instant. Adding a millisecond to each open call is imperceptible to the user, and it takes less time than that if you return immediately and process the index update in the background. [1] happy to be proven wrong.
- tambourine_man 3y agoYou don’t? What do you run Linux on? The default Ext4 is journaled
- beart 3y agoNot quite. Run has plugins but the default file search still uses windows search. However, there is a third party plugin for powertoys run that integrates the everything search service.
- abrookewood 3y agoYep, if you run Windows and don't have that installed, you're just suffering for no reason. Fastest file search you will ever find.