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I really like the idea behind μMon. It reminds me of when software was simpler. I remember using a program called "Everything" by voidtools. It was small but could search a lot of files quickly. Nowadays, some projects use big tools like Elasticsearch just to search a few things. Some even use PostgreSQL, a big database, for small tasks. I wish more software would keep things simple.

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“Everything” is a must have for me. It’s shocking that Windows doesn’t come with local search that works.

Microsoft has added basically the same functionality to Power Toys, called Run[0], taking heavy inspiration from Everything. But yeah this should be a built-in utility.

[0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/run

Does it read the ntfs journal? Because that's really what makes everything, everything.

It makes me wish I used a journaling filesystem on Linux too.

You don’t? What do you run Linux on? The default Ext4 is journaled

I'm pretty certain that everything doesn't use the NTFS journal[1].

My understanding is that everything uses the file open hooks provided for antivirus to maintain the index, which is why it appears instant.

Adding a millisecond to each open call is imperceptible to the user, and it takes less time than that if you return immediately and process the index update in the background.

[1] happy to be proven wrong.

Not quite. Run has plugins but the default file search still uses windows search. However, there is a third party plugin for powertoys run that integrates the everything search service.

Yep, if you run Windows and don't have that installed, you're just suffering for no reason. Fastest file search you will ever find.

Whats wrong is Postgres? It is very simple yet very powerful. Can run on very minimal resources , without hogging your CPU

I think GP meant more that people shouldn't use Postgres for small systems, over SQLite or something.

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