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An FYI for Windows users, check out Everything for searching your harddrive. It is insanely fast. Like, search your entire harddrive in real time as you press the letters fast. Compared to the crap Windows has built in, it feels like magic, until you realize that searching a database at fast speeds has been a solved problem for decades and yet Microsoft still continues to struggle because they want to throw in every possible piece of metadata and contents every time you search when most people just want to type a name in.

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9bananas@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
+1 for everything: literally saves my sanity

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lemmyingly@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
WizFile does a good job at it too. It works differently though; WizFile just looks at your partition table of the selected drive/directory. It’s super fast in all aspects but it’s only a single drive/directory at a time. I think Everything is slow to index everything but is super fast when searching and works across multiple drives/directories

WizFile is made by the same people who make WizTree and is essentially the same program, but instead of visually showing you the disk, it allows you to search.

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MonkderDritte@feddit.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Thought it was abandoned. It’s not but closed source. Just discovered EverythingToolbar. Btw, i use Launchy / TagsSpaces on Windows.

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