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Does it integrate with Everything allowing for instant search results for any file anywhere? Plans to have extensions? A detailed comparison with Directory Opus would be welcome

It does not integrate with Everything. It's already blazingly fast with the regular WinAPI for indexing. However, MFT indexing (which Everything uses) will be added as built-in support in the near future. It will be an opt-in option for users.

There are a couple of reasons why I didn't want to make MFT the default.

a) It requires admin access.

b) It's NTFS specific, which means you need to write different logic for other file systems anyway.

c) It's not officially documented or supported by Microsoft. It was reverse-engineered.

There is "blazingly fast" where you also have to only include SSDs, still see your root drive taking seconds to populate data for, and still requiring admin for the whole app with those ugly underlines otherwise..

And then there is literally instant, for literally everything, while the app itself is in normal mode and thus preserves the non-admin benefits.

a) Not for the app, only for Everything

b) Those other file systems could also be indexed by Everything (though via a slower mechanism). Also given the primacy of NTFS, I'd definitely trade the ability to have folder sizes for drives I rarely use for the instant calculations on drives I use all the time

c) Good. Waiting for MS docs could mean a few more decades of wasted potential

That's exactly what I've been asking myself and I wish I could. I index our huge, nested network drives every night with Everything and can search & find within seconds.

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