Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?

Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? by dmytroi on Monday April 13, 2020 @05:29AM (#22854321)

I was looking for Everything for Mac and tbh I can't say Spotlight is even close. Sure Spotlight works great for apps and files in ~/Documents/, but I find it failing when I'm trying to find some obscure file in /Library/ or with-in Xcode SDK's.

Is Alfred good in this sense?

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Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? by thirdsun on Sunday April 19, 2020 @06:21AM (#22914775)

I’m using Alfred and you can add locations to search in, but I’m pretty sure you can also do that for Spotlight. It shouldn’t be a problem either way.

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Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? by edanm on Monday April 13, 2020 @05:56AM (#22854426)

I used to use Alfred for this, but it's not really the same as Everything. I'm not sure why - something about the speed, results or maybe just the interface itself.

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Re:Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? by sk5t on Monday April 13, 2020 @01:41PM (#22858015)

Some of the Windows tools use the NTFS / USN change journal for very fast access to metadata without traipsing across the rest of the filesystem. I dunno if APFS has such a thing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USN_Journal

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