Search Progress

Sometimes I'm searching through thousands of files for a specific string in these files. After clicking "Find" I have to wait for an unknown period before DO is ready. Is there a way to see how far DO is with searching? e.g. a simple progressbar with a percentage of the processed files / total files.

Thanks in advance!

Rien

IMO is not possible. Opus search files by entering every directory and read all files. The same procedure is required for calculating file operations, so it's basically the same / similar operation - so it's pointless. There may be some advantage if you using "content" search (and first read list of files and folders) but still - you'll get results much faster without that.

IMO it IS possible. I don't want a very precise indication but only a rough one. Now you don't get any feetback. Do I have to wait for 1 minute, 3 hours of forever (search is hanging)? I don't know. I'm just staring at an empty lister. DO can, at the start, count how many files it processes (if no subdirectories) or how many subdirectories it has to process.

It's not currently possible, but isn't an outrageous idea when doing content searching.

That said, we would need to be careful if we added it, as a Find operation may be set up to avoid entering certain folders at all, and the pre-counting would need to respect that (e.g. the excluded folders could be mount points to a very slow drive). If using Advanced mode and the 'contains' clause is sandwiched between others, it could also get complicated, and there are also things like script columns which may be very fast or very slow and aren't definite triggers for switching to a pre-counting mode or avoiding it... So it would need some thought.

I don't do content searches often, but when I do I can usually get a feel for how far they've gotten by the status bar's report of where it is currently searching relative to the folder structure being searched.

Hi Leo,

I often do a content-search in a lot of files (something 1000's) and I doubt if I should stay at PowerGrep or do the searches within DO. I would like to use as less utilities as possible. I know that PowerGrep is a lot powerful (e.g. it can save the found content is a separate file) but mostly I'm only searching for the file.

Thanks for thinking with me.