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I read somewhere that windows search takes into account the security and other restrictions on the folders. That's why it's slow. Everything on the other hand w
by smusamashah 2y ago
I read somewhere that windows search takes into account the security and other restrictions on the folders. That's why it's slow. Everything on the other hand will give you everything without caring if you have access to the file or not. Which makes sense because it's using file tables directly to give you results.
Everything + RipGrep is how i search files and file contents on windows.
- beart 2y agoI suspect there's more going on. Why is the search index consuming multiple GBs? And why does that seem to grow unconstrained? I can only imagine what ancient code may live in that feature.
- leptons 2y ago"Everything" is great so long as you don't have too much data to index, but I've seen "Everything" also consuming multiple GB of RAM with all my drives being indexed. It can also cause some performance issues depending on what I'm doing with the system, so I only run "Everything" if and when I need it.
- dumbfounder 2y agoThis would only make sense if it isn't actually indexing the permissions, it just checks the file at the time it finds it. That would be DUMB if they did it that way. They can index that one extra field and it would still be fast.