Speedup of file searching, folders synchronizing etc.

[Terka]

File searching, folders synchronizing etc is slow in comparison to tools like
'Everything' http://www.voidtools.com/.
Christian, could you please implement similar algorithm?

[Vochomurka]

Is this the answer?

[Michael REMY]

File searching, folders synchronizing etc is slow in comparison to tools like
'Everything' http://www.voidtools.com/.
Christian, could you please implement similar algorithm?

voidtools use an index, so it means there is a longer (maybe in background) tsk which is performed before the search.

[ghisler(Author)]

TC 9 will use 'Everything'. I have used it for a few weeks now, and it works very well, except when searching in the Windows directory: Here there are a lot of files with multiple hard links to them, and 'Everything' will usually find the wrong one, e.g.
"C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-s..-soundthemes-sonata_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_201752c112c5078c\Windows Logon Sound.wav"
instead of finding
"C:\Windows\Media\Windows Logon Sound.wav"

[Lefteous]

2ghisler(Author)
What did you search for in your example?

[Horst.Epp]

TC 9 will use 'Everything'. I have used it for a few weeks now, and it works very well, except when searching in the Windows directory: Here there are a lot of files with multiple hard links to them, and 'Everything' will usually find the wrong one, e.g.
"C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-s..-soundthemes-sonata_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_201752c112c5078c\Windows Logon Sound.wav"
instead of finding
"C:\Windows\Media\Windows Logon Sound.wav"

Next Everything version will support hard links

[ghisler(Author)]

2Lefteous
*.wav in Windows directory.

2Horst.Epp
Ah, that would solve it, nice to hear that!

[Lefteous]

2ghisler(Author)
If you are talking about a recursive search - the search result is valid. I guess it's not always desired to get all paths of a file in all use cases.

If required - starting from Vista there is an API to get all paths of a file:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/windows/desktop/aa364421%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

But how can you say what the 'right' one is? As far as I know there is no default path for a file. There is just one or multiple paths to a file.

[Terka]

Christian thanks, its great news!
Wen do you approximately expect version 9 being available?

[ghisler(Author)]

Difficult to say - there will be a public beta test here in the forum first. But new requests are flooding in, so the release gets pushed back more and more...