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I had heard about Everything before and never really gave it a second glance.
I once again ran into Everything on Google.
This time I downloaded it.
It was a portable 272KB filelocated here.
I was hoping Everything was going to be a totally different story.
According to what I read Everything ONLY searches through file names and that makes it very fast.
But let’s actually put it through the tests.
I extracted a 589KB file from the zip file and ran it.
This is what I saw:
Hmm…..everything looks pretty empty!
So I am going to try and find a group of images from my latest eBook on Photoshop.
I think all the images start with Photoshop.
I simply typedPhotoshopand watched as my search results populated as I typed.
Very nice and very fast.
How can this little app work so quickly and efficiently?
I have no idea!
So I opened up my task manager and looked for Everything.
After the full search Everything was using around 20MB of memory.
Not bad at all!
So far I am loving it.
I decided to poke around their website and see what else Everything can do.
A fresh install of Windows XP SP2 (about 20,000 files) will take about 1 second to index.
1,000,000 files will take about 1 minute.
Once you get the hang of it you will find it exceptionally useful in lots of places.
I am sure you’re free to already imagine how powerful this is!
Let’s take a look at the program’s options.
The exclude option tab allows you to specify folders or files to be excluded including hidden or system files.
ETP is a feature that allows for remote searching of your local database.
More information on this topic can be foundhere.
And with some crafty FTP’ing you might be able to hand roll yourself a nice file solution.
