I 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.
Everything about this feels like what Microsoft should have done. It’s absolutely amazing to me that search is so broken in Windows and yet a free third-party tool can instantly find any file anywhere.
I genuinely just don't use the Start Menu anymore. It cannot find anything, and every search will include two Internet results (Bing only of course) and a Microsoft Store reference.
This is why it’s slow, everything you enter is being exfiltrated for ads. Windows is corporate malware.
* The tool is truly amazing. Both for simple usage, and the advanced queries that it accepts. Very powerful, like a command line tool. * As another comment says, v1.5 alpha has many advantages. Despite the alpha label, I find it to be very stable. * Several software integrations exist: https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6326 , I mostly like being able to see folder sizes instantly in explorer. I used xpl…
Everything about this feels like what Microsoft should have done. It’s absolutely amazing to me that search is so broken in Windows and yet a free third-party tool can instantly find any file anywhere.
One hypothetical I wonder about is what the windows ecosystem would be like if third parties could make distributions of windows, if somehow that could be licensed and enough windows building/packaging was opened up. It'd be interesting to see whether collaborations of projects would form where they pull out MS parts and substitute their own, presumably with the constraint that they maintain compatibility. I imagine it'd take a while for any commercial products thinking of getting involved to figure out sharing, trust, and how to offer it in a way companies or individuals might want to donate/pay for.
This tool is incredible for its simplicity. I was looking for old files I thought I deleted from flash drive and it was able to detect them instantly on my PC vs. native explorer.
I 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.
If you set `no_db=1` in `Everything.ini` you can configure it to be memory-only: https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9994#:~:text...
I think re-indexing all my drives every time it runs is even worse.