Speeding up WE searches

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My 2.4 Ghz core 2 duo XP Home machine which I built has 6 hdds (4 sata's & 3
ide's, no raid config at present) with a total of 10 partitions, ~ 2,000 gig
of space, about half of which is currently full, mostly with thousands of
multimedia files. Searching for a single file can be fairly time consuming.
Not awful, but t takes several minutes & I wish it were faster. I have the
indexing service turned on, but this has not noticeably shortened search
times. Is there any other way to speed up searches across so much hdd
space?

TIA

Dan
 
Dan

You can search individual drives or folders on drives!


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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"Dan" <none@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> My 2.4 Ghz core 2 duo XP Home machine which I built has 6 hdds (4
> sata's & 3 ide's, no raid config at present) with a total of 10
> partitions, ~ 2,000 gig of space, about half of which is currently
> full, mostly with thousands of multimedia files. Searching for a
> single file can be fairly time consuming. Not awful, but t takes
> several minutes & I wish it were faster. I have the indexing service
> turned on, but this has not noticeably shortened search times. Is
> there any other way to speed up searches across so much hdd space?
>
> TIA
>
> Dan
>
 
"Gerry" <gerry@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Dan
>
> You can search individual drives or folders on drives!

Yeah I know. That helps when it's applicable, but often I'm not sure what
drive a given file is located on, so I end up having to search the whole
computer.

Dan
 
Dan wrote:
> My 2.4 Ghz core 2 duo XP Home machine which I built has 6 hdds (4
> sata's & 3 ide's, no raid config at present) with a total of 10
> partitions, ~ 2,000 gig of space, about half of which is currently
> full, mostly with thousands of multimedia files. Searching for a
> single file can be fairly time consuming. Not awful, but t takes
> several minutes & I wish it were faster. I have the indexing service
> turned on, but this has not noticeably shortened search times. Is
> there any other way to speed up searches across so much hdd space?
>

Get AgentRansack
 
Dan wrote:
> "Gerry" <gerry@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:uMmGtvmwHHA.4228@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Dan
>>
>> You can search individual drives or folders on drives!
>
> Yeah I know. That helps when it's applicable, but often I'm not sure what
> drive a given file is located on, so I end up having to search the whole
> computer.
>
> Dan
>
>

Hi Dan,

You're not going to like my answer, but I would say its time
to set up a filing system. I only have about 500GB of files,
but all together, over the various drives, there is more
than 700,000 data files.

I have a filing system so that when I use AgentRansack
(Freeware) to find a file, it never takes more than 90 seconds.

One of the thing I have done is I have one partition called
'DynamicData'. Anything new coming into the machine goes to
that partition until I have time to properly file it.

It takes a few extra steps, but when you have 100s of
thousands of files, the long term time serving is definitely
worth it.

Ciao . . . C.Joseph

"A promise is nothing more than an attempt
to respond to an unreasonable demand."

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"C.Joseph Drayton" <csdcs@tlerma.com> wrote in message
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> Dan wrote:
>> "Gerry" <gerry@nospam.com> wrote in message
>
> You're not going to like my answer, but I would say its time to set up a
> filing system.

I'll check out the program you suggest. Can you eleborate on what you mean
by a "filing system"?

Thanks

Dan
 
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