Searching on non indexed folders can be painfull. Even more more painfull
when you have to retreive the same results again - And it does the search all
over again.

I did a search I windows explorere that took a few minutes, then browsed
another folder to look at something , then hit the back button and it did the
search all over again. Cant vista not tell if the file system has been
changed and only then repeat a search for these kid of cases?

Regards

Your best bet is to simply index the entire system, then all of your searches
will be much faster. It'll take a while but it's a good investment in your
time if you don't plan on wiping the partition any time soon.

"blueey" wrote:

Searching on non indexed folders can be painfull. Even more more painfull
when you have to retreive the same results again - And it does the search all
over again.

I did a search I windows explorere that took a few minutes, then browsed
another folder to look at something , then hit the back button and it did the
search all over again. Cant vista not tell if the file system has been
changed and only then repeat a search for these kid of cases?

Regards

Thanks , but i have another question though,

If i do that , index the whole system, then whats the point of indexing?
I assumed indexing was meant to speed up searches on directories that are
commonly used to store and get info.

So if we have everything indexed - system as well, then would it not be tons
of info in the index file and searches going on for a while

I'm guessing that you dont mean entire system but only certain folders or am
i missing something

"Adam" wrote:

Your best bet is to simply index the entire system, then all of your searches
will be much faster. It'll take a while but it's a good investment in your
time if you don't plan on wiping the partition any time soon.

"blueey" wrote:

Searching on non indexed folders can be painfull. Even more more painfull
when you have to retreive the same results again - And it does the search all
over again.

I did a search I windows explorere that took a few minutes, then browsed
another folder to look at something , then hit the back button and it did the
search all over again. Cant vista not tell if the file system has been
changed and only then repeat a search for these kid of cases?

Regards

The index is designed to be very fast for searching - much faster than the
non-indexed searches. I have about 250,000 items in my index and searches
take only a couple of seconds.

Note that there can be some performance overhead building an index of that
size in the first place, which is why we don't index the entire hard-drive
by default. But if you want fast searches over the whole drive I would
recommend trying it out ...

Dave Wood


"blueey" wrote in message
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Thanks , but i have another question though,

If i do that , index the whole system, then whats the point of indexing?
I assumed indexing was meant to speed up searches on directories that are
commonly used to store and get info.

So if we have everything indexed - system as well, then would it not be
tons
of info in the index file and searches going on for a while

I'm guessing that you dont mean entire system but only certain folders or
am
i missing something

"Adam" wrote:

Your best bet is to simply index the entire system, then all of your
searches
will be much faster. It'll take a while but it's a good investment in
your
time if you don't plan on wiping the partition any time soon.

"blueey" wrote:

Searching on non indexed folders can be painfull. Even more more
painfull
when you have to retreive the same results again - And it does the
search all
over again.

I did a search I windows explorere that took a few minutes, then
browsed
another folder to look at something , then hit the back button and it
did the
search all over again. Cant vista not tell if the file system has been
changed and only then repeat a search for these kid of cases?

Regards