Ken Blake wrote:
On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 13:54:51 -0600, "Bill in Co"
surly_curmudgeon@earthlink wrote:

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Mayayana
writes:
"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote

I used to open "Everything" and then leave it running. It takes a few
seconds to open, then settles down; I can use it, and it finds things
amazingly fast. It is an excellent utility!

However, of late: some minutes after I've opened it and all has
settled down, I hear my fan spin up (it is normally idling), and I
start Task Manager to see what's using CPU - and I see Everything.exe
is using 25% CPU

I don't know about mining, but it does index. You should
be able to check the former by just blocking it from going
out.

You're right - I'd forgotten I have an indication (both graphical and
audible) (both directions) of net traffic, and that's silent, so it
isn't mining. I didn't think it was, really. (Though would mining
involve a lot of net traffic, or just a bit to fetch and a bit to return
the results?)

I've never tried Everything. I like Agent Ransack. Extremely
fast with no indexing. But if you have "a lot a lot" of stuff and
do a lot of searching, maybe indexing makes sense. For me,
I usually know pretty much where things are. I'm more apt
to do a search like finding which of 30 files in a folder has the
line of text I remember from an article I'm trying to find. Given
that, I think of indexing as wasteful wear and tear on disks.

They're different purposes: Everything works on filenames, Agent Ransack
on file contents. I don't think Everything - because of the way it
works, which I don't understand, but it's something to do with NTFS, I
think - _does_ hammer the disc. I use it mostly - but not exclusively -
when I want to ask myself "have I already downloaded a file with x
[often a serial number] in its name".

You don't need to use Agent Ransack to look for text in a file. It works
great for just finding files by file name or file date, and without
needing indexing. So it seems to me they can serve similar purposes,
except that I don't want indexing, and if that's required for
Everything, I myself wouldn't use it. The only exception to this I can
see is if I had a HUGE database that needed to be searched frequently.



Your choice of course, but let me ask what you have against indexing.
It works extremely well for Everything.

For me it's a general issue with indexing. The indexes may or may not be up
to date, for example, after adding or modifying or removing some files, but
without indexing, what you see is what you get, and there is no waiting for
an index to rebuilt each time. The downside is it takes longer to find
things, admitely. But I can wait for that. Even more especially if I use a
program like FileLocator Pro, which lets me exclude extraneous windows
directories in the search.

I also have indexing turned off on my system too. That's one of the first
things I did when I get a new computer, but in this case it may also be due
tothe potential for hogging some system resources, on occasion.

As I like to say, Less is (or can be) More, one of my general philosophies
of life. :-) (Somewhat of a Luddite, I guess. :-) Which is another
reason I'm still on XP).