[Ti] Journeling.

[luke]

if you want to find files faster...

sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb


and use the terminal...

locate thefilename

bang!

there it is.

On Friday, August 6, 2004, at 05:41  PM, b wrote:

> Sambouka paused, thought it over, and spoke thusly:
>
>> can someone explain to me what "indexing" does? does it help locate 
>> documents faster?
>
> Sure. It speeds up the process of finding text within files. So you 
> can search for strings of text without having to know which 
> file/folder/partition it is located in.
>
> It works like this: Each file is scanned for the the first 2,000 
> unique words. Records their association with each file. It's a 
> situation where, if one has a limited vocabulary, the odds of finding 
> a forgotten file, based on a 'snippet' of text, increase in one's 
> favor, dramatically.
>
> As for finding files themselves, the Finder's Command-F works really 
> fast, and even faster when one's Directory is kept accurate, and 
> optimized. DiskWarrior specializes in exactly that.
>
> But indexing is worth the time.
>
> ~flipper