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by rococode 1252 days ago
Everything search is incredible, for me it serves nearly instant searches for 15TB+ of data without any trouble. I think the secret sauce is a background service which continuously updates the file index.

I also like WinDirStat a lot for Windows file management, which is not really for search but gives a great view of disk usage.
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delta_p_delta_x 1252 days ago
> I think the secret sauce is a background service which continuously updates the file index

Actually, the secret sauce to both WizTree's and Everything's speed is the NTFS Master File Table (MFT) [1].

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/maste...

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hackrnusr 1252 days ago
Is there an open source analog of voidtools Everything yet?

Have never been able to find anything.

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kid64 1252 days ago
There's this, which I haven't tried: https://github.com/ChrisS85/FastFileSearch

SwiftSearch is excellent and uses the same tech: https://sourceforge.net/projects/swiftsearch/

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pynappo 1252 days ago
I've seen flow launcher recommended but haven't personally tried it out yet
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hackrnusr 1252 days ago
Thanks for the suggestion.

Probably worth benchmarking against fzf/ripgrep when I can find the time.

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yonz 1251 days ago
So why do the stock implementations suck?
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