I've been using this tool for a while. It is incredibly useful. Kudos to the developer(s).
The real question is: why is the default Windows search so terrible? Did Microsoft make it useless on purpose?
Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly
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#22Love this program.
.this plus filepilot makes windows almost usable
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#23How does it handle files with long paths? Windows had limitations on that…
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#24I've been using this tool for a while. It is incredibly useful. Kudos to the developer(s). The real question is: why is the default Windows search so terrible? Did Microsoft make it useless on purpose?
It now seems to serve the purpose of funneling users into edge, AI products, or serving ads.
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#25I used this for years
It is a HUGE memory hog so buyer beware
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#26Do you think future devs on this tool can use a new fast method to find content within files?
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#27Do you think future devs on this tool can use a new fast method to find content within files?
1.5 Alpha kind of halfway does this: https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9793
Halfway because it is fast, but it's fast because it keeps the index entirely within RAM and thus you can't yet throw an arbitrarily-large disk of stuff at it to content-index.
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#28I've been using this tool for a while. It is incredibly useful. Kudos to the developer(s). The real question is: why is the default Windows search so terrible? Did Microsoft make it useless on purpose?
Because the default windows search actually iterates every folder/subfolder, rather than using the global file table, which "everything" uses
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#29I used this for a while. What I don't like is that it updates its database by creating an entirely new copy and then deleting/renaming. For me that meant a several-hundred-MB file was being unnecessarily rewritten on a regular basis. It's a rather excessive waste of resources and not a polite thing to do when a lot of people have SSDs now.
I uninstalled it for that reason.
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#30This is most often used tool in my daily work.
I work on win11. I don't use native search because it sucks and is slow as tar drip experiment.
Onedrive/sharepoint files content search at least works at all but only in web version. Still slow as hell, unreliable, ui/ux is crap.
With Everything I search >500k real files/folders + >300k fake files in milliseconds.