is "Everything" doing some mining?

In message , Paul
writes:
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I wonder. If you had a million files in an IE cache,
would the dates on the files change when you use IE ?

I would want to understand just how many files were
on this machine, for a starter. To see if there is
"any potential way for scaling to account for it".

Like, if there were 10 million files, you would
expect the indexing (if and when done) to take
longer than an average install/use of 0.5 million files.
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Everything's search GUI tells you how many matches there are to the
string you've typed in. With no string, which I think means it's showing
all files (and folders), the figure showing is "211,629 objects". If I
enter C:, it says 158,032; D:, 53,598. [So there's a lot of _garbage_ on
C:!) It's a fairly static number - as I watch it now, the last three
digits are varying between 630 and 631, suggesting the OS is not
creating and destroying many files as it idles. Now (after a minute or
three) it's changing between 631 and 632. Just out of curiosity, I'll
close Chrome ... odd, that (with JS enabled and about ten tabs open) was
the only thing I thought would be doing much. OK, I'll close Firefox ...
also no change. Did go up gradually to 211,625 - now back at 211,619.
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