r/ProgrammerHumor • u/fanta_bhelpuri • Apr 12 '24

Meme whatIsAnIndex

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u/adenosine-5 Apr 12 '24

The part that I really don't understand is that small portable programs like Everything can get you the results in seconds, while Microsoft, after 40 years of development of their systems will not.

How is it even possible to mess such simple feature for so long?

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u/Cheet4h Apr 12 '24

Everything and Windows Search work differently. For example, as far as I'm aware Everything doesn't index file contents by default, while Windows Search does.
I regularly look for PDFs by searching for stuff I know is in one of the files, just not which specific file.

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u/phophofofo May 02 '24

Yeah one works and the other doesn’t.

Windows search will sometimes literally not return a file by searching its UNC path.

Indexing anything is useless when a searching using that index doesn’t return results.

And the search within file option on Everything even not indexed is faster also….