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		copperx on Aug 28, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: "Everything" is a filename search engine for Windo... How does it maintain the index then? Isn't using the Windows indexing service the reason it works so fast?

jabroni_salad on Aug 28, 2024 [–]

It reads the MFT. Then it stores its own index in a file called 'everything.db' which I am pretty sure is a sqlite file.

I don't think the windows indexing service is utilized at all.

beart on Aug 28, 2024 | [–]

Correct, you can turn off windows search index if you want to use everything instead.

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