Timeline for Software to text-search a LARGE set of files (ebooks)
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| Mar 11, 2014 at 19:34 | comment | added | Yos233 | Source please. I did a search and could find no quantifiable data on the index slowing down a computer. | |
| Mar 10, 2014 at 6:23 | comment | added | Steve Barnes | N.B. One of the reasons that windows is prone to slowing down over time is that indexing is ON by default and slows the machine down more and more. It is probably one of the most often switched off feature as a result! | |
| Mar 10, 2014 at 1:37 | comment | added | DVK | I wasn't referring to indexing. I was referring to displaying results. Everything can display thousands of results snappyly. Windows Explorer will get frozen | |
| Mar 10, 2014 at 0:58 | comment | added | Yos233 | You asked the question, and i gave you my best answer. To me, bogging the system down refers to slowing down other processes (ie CPU hog). Yes of course searching thousands of files will take some time. I don't think you will find a single program that can search your sizable library with any great amount of speed. | |
| Mar 10, 2014 at 0:46 | review | Low quality posts | |||
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| Mar 10, 2014 at 0:41 | comment | added | DVK | Wouldn't bog down the system? It bogs down opening (forget search) a directory with several thousand files in it!!! | |
| Mar 10, 2014 at 0:23 | comment | added | Yos233 | I don't think Explorer would bog down the system (at the expense of possibly slower search). PDF indexing is possible through the Adobe IFilter .dll, adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=4025. I couldn't find a similar one for EPUB, so potentially not. | |
| Mar 9, 2014 at 23:32 | comment | added | DVK | How well does it scale? Specifically can it effectively handle the size stated in the question without bogging down the system both indexing and searching? Can it index contents of text PDFs? EPUBs? | |
| Mar 9, 2014 at 23:25 | review | First posts | |||
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| Mar 9, 2014 at 23:06 | history | answered | Yos233 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |