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This is something that's always puzzled me - why is searching in Windows always so gosh darn slow? You'd think with an entire background service dedicated to fi
by Varriount 3y ago
This is something that's always puzzled me - why is searching in Windows always so gosh darn slow? You'd think with an entire background service dedicated to file indexing, I'd be able to quickly find files in a directory tree with the word "foo" in their file name or contents, but even with a modern SSD it still takes at least a minute on any remotely populated directory.
- xtracto 3y agoFile search in graphical Linux is terrible as well. Just the other day i was trying to do sone simple file search in Mint and oh god the GUI search function is completely useless. I had to jump around installing 3 "file search" programs, none of them really worked and at the end I settled with some console bash magic. ... its 2023 people.
- anthk 3y agoWith Linux the best option it's to use recoll to create a database and a GUI to search into your documents.
- hulitu 3y agoLocate works great.
- Jenda_ 3y agoLocate is for file names, not file contents.
- deepspace 3y agoripgrep for contents
- pseudalopex 3y agoripgrep is fast for what it is. But indexes are faster.
- Jenda_ 3y agoAdditionally, I would expect indexing to extract text contents from non-plain-text formats. (such as Recoll does)
- xtracto 3y agoHow's its GUI? you know, because I was talking about GUI based file searching.
- dzonga 3y agoyep on linux have to use catfish file search
- Auracle 3y agoIt blows my mind that third party applications are better at search than the freaking OS.
- JohnFen 3y agoAnd that it's not only been that way for a lot of years, but it's getting worse with time. It's utterly baffling to me.
- SturgeonsLaw 3y agoMicrosoft should just buy Everything off Voidtools because they have perfected Windows search and it boggles my mind that Microsoft can't recreate that.
- velox_neb 3y ago> Microsoft should just buy Everything off Voidtools Don't give them ideas, they'd find some way to ruin it.
- MenhirMike 3y agoAzure Voidtools, powered by Cortana AI. Microsoft Account required for use.