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Have you tried Ueli? Has been working great for me: https://ueli.oliverschwendener.ch/ https://ueli.oliverschwendener.ch/

jotm 7y ago
Looks good, I'll try it, thank you!
anotheryou 7y ago
Wox and keyperinha are 2 more alternatives (wox with more plugins but less maintained). Both integrate "everything" for filesearch (it's a pity they don't use the 100 times faster WizFile)
- Semaphor 7y ago
  I use keypiranha as well. Great tool! > it's a pity they don't use the 100 times faster WizFile 100 times faster? Everything is instant for me, never had any kind of delay. What things are slow enough with it that something else could be faster?
  - anotheryou 7y ago
    Indexing. Everything traverses your folders to find everything and make an index from that, WizFile reads this from some hard drive tables directly. So the first indexing with everything takes maybe 30 minutes or more (I actually have no Idea how long it took exactly..) and wizfile is done in under a minute. With slower drives (e.g. external USB2) the difference should be even more dramatic. The only downside appart from missing integrations is that it doesn't support full regex.
    - Semaphor 7y ago
      Ah, okay, that makes sense. Thanks. That means for me everything is the better tool (I sometimes use regex and I never need to index usb drives)
    - drewkett 7y ago
      I don’t think that’s true. Everything takes ~20 seconds to index my machine. I think Everything reads NTFS file table directly. Maybe you didn’t give it Admin privileges?
      - anotheryou 7y ago
        Ooops, I think you are right! Here is where I mixed up things: WizTree does what WinDirStat does, but here it's really quicker.
    - jaclaz 7y ago
      JFYI, SwiftSearch has Regex functons and it is (on NTFS of course) as fast as a search tool can be: https://sourceforge.net/projects/swiftsearch/?source=dlp https://sourceforge.net/projects/swiftsearch/?source=dlp

jotm 7y ago

Looks good, I'll try it, thank you!

anotheryou 7y ago

Wox and keyperinha are 2 more alternatives (wox with more plugins but less maintained). Both integrate "everything" for filesearch (it's a pity they don't use the 100 times faster WizFile)

Semaphor 7y ago
I use keypiranha as well. Great tool! > it's a pity they don't use the 100 times faster WizFile 100 times faster? Everything is instant for me, never had any kind of delay. What things are slow enough with it that something else could be faster?
- anotheryou 7y ago
  Indexing. Everything traverses your folders to find everything and make an index from that, WizFile reads this from some hard drive tables directly. So the first indexing with everything takes maybe 30 minutes or more (I actually have no Idea how long it took exactly..) and wizfile is done in under a minute. With slower drives (e.g. external USB2) the difference should be even more dramatic. The only downside appart from missing integrations is that it doesn't support full regex.
  - Semaphor 7y ago
    Ah, okay, that makes sense. Thanks. That means for me everything is the better tool (I sometimes use regex and I never need to index usb drives)
  - drewkett 7y ago
    I don’t think that’s true. Everything takes ~20 seconds to index my machine. I think Everything reads NTFS file table directly. Maybe you didn’t give it Admin privileges?
    - anotheryou 7y ago
      Ooops, I think you are right! Here is where I mixed up things: WizTree does what WinDirStat does, but here it's really quicker.
  - jaclaz 7y ago
    JFYI, SwiftSearch has Regex functons and it is (on NTFS of course) as fast as a search tool can be: https://sourceforge.net/projects/swiftsearch/?source=dlp https://sourceforge.net/projects/swiftsearch/?source=dlp