“I found you some some bing searches, a sponserned appstore recommendation, 3 news-slop articles, ane the weather for Reading, Berkshire. Are you happy?”
That’s why you need an instant indexed search tool like Everything.
(I know this is a joke thread, I just love this tool so much - I have 5 million files on one computer and to have it instantly search filenames taking next to zero resources, as a totally free offline tool, from a time before subscriptions and bloat, warms my cold heart and I want to share that feeling.)
I don’t think any of you making this comment have worked in a small office before. For most, the closest thing resembling IT is when there’s a problem Becky calls her grandson.
Mate, even absolute nutjobs use the (garbage!) search. I have watched people use the search to find the folders/files they use all day every day. I stood next to them while they did it. I died a little inside.
Probably after a “recent” update. searching network locations used to work fine if the target machine had indexed it, but ms updated to a new search and I could never fix it after that.
Search for “please read.doc”.
If it was in gdocs this is plausible. “I fucking made a document named THIS FILENAME, and I made it TODAY”
"Never I heard of it’
Meanwhile in windows;
“I found you some some bing searches, a sponserned appstore recommendation, 3 news-slop articles, ane the weather for Reading, Berkshire. Are you happy?”
maybe the fact that nobody else who works there is competent enough to do that is part of the reason they hated working there
So windows can sit and spin it’s little mouse cursor and say “working on it!” and never actually come back with any results.
That’s why you need an instant indexed search tool like Everything.
(I know this is a joke thread, I just love this tool so much - I have 5 million files on one computer and to have it instantly search filenames taking next to zero resources, as a totally free offline tool, from a time before subscriptions and bloat, warms my cold heart and I want to share that feeling.)
This works for personal, but when you’re stuck with corporate machines you’re just SOL
Indeed, what is this nonsense story…
I don’t think any of you making this comment have worked in a small office before. For most, the closest thing resembling IT is when there’s a problem Becky calls her grandson.
Mate, even absolute nutjobs use the (garbage!) search. I have watched people use the search to find the folders/files they use all day every day. I stood next to them while they did it. I died a little inside.
I’ve tried searching on our local servers before but it never finds anything
Probably after a “recent” update. searching network locations used to work fine if the target machine had indexed it, but ms updated to a new search and I could never fix it after that.