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Files, Folders, and Search

Files, Folders, and Search

Posted Oct 28, 2010 7:25 UTC (Thu) by russell (subscriber, #10458)
In reply to: Files, Folders, and Search by drag
Parent article: Shuttleworth: Unity shell will be default desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (ars technica)

Just wondering. What is Search going to do with data that it can't analyse?

I have a directory tree in my home directory with 16 million map tiles, and lots of other non searchable stuff such as source code. What's it going to do when it see that. Spend days analysing them? Will I be forced to move stuff out of my home directory that isn't searchable? I think there is a big difference between a home directory where I control stuff and the internet where I don't.


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Files, Folders, and Search

Posted Oct 31, 2010 12:31 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

On the internet, you also don't spend your system's time and disk bandwidth doing the indexing.

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