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.