Clancolin

[Clancolin]

Hi,
I haven't really had time to play with tag2find yet, but here's a feedback thought...

I'm sure I'm not the only "tagger" who has come here with another desktop search program already installed (Copernic2 in my case).

That means there are effectively two lots of tagging/indexing going on and I find that this slows my PC down quite a bit at times.

Copernic2 allows me to suspend indexing, and then restart (e.g. when I take screen breaks, etc). I think this would be a useful feature in tag2find too. Any thoughts?

Thanks for all your efforts so far. I am a big fan of tagging and tag2find looks good.

PS I posted a feedback form a few days ago, and it never appeared. Can't even remember what it was about now!

[martin]

Hi,

tag2find itself does not scan files at the moment, it just tracks newly created files and file movements without parsing them. The performance impact should be quite low after the first initial few minutes when the tag2find service needs to list all directories on the supported disks to allow fast tracking of the files.

Do you see any performance problems after the initial phase?

Hmm, now while thinking about it, it could be that the indexing of Copernic causes a lot of file change entries in the NTFS Change Journal, so this would cause tag2find to react to this. I'll reinstall Copernic and will investigate this.

A possible solution that comes to my mind regarding this issue would be if you could specify folders where we would not even try to track files, as I expect that hardly anyone will want to tag the Copernic (or any other search engine) index.

So, thanks a lot, your feedback just gave me some new ideas what we need to improve performance

Best regards,
Martin