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Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by yread on Monday May 20, 2024 @06:30PM (#40421239)
What there are still people who don't install Voidtools' Everything on all Windows PCs and assign it a global shortcut? Since I have it I don't even bother organizing stuff
Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by joenot443 on Monday May 20, 2024 @09:43PM (#40423117)
Does anyone know of a similar tool for macOS? I'd gotten really comfortable with a Ctrl+Alt+S binding on Windows for Everything and miss it these days on macOS.
Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by least on Monday May 20, 2024 @11:11PM (#40423662)
Spotlight?

There's HoudahSpot [1] for something a little more advanced. Third party launchers like Alfred [2] can also perform file searches.

[1] https://www.houdah.com/houdahSpot/

[2] https://www.alfredapp.com/

Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by luckman212 on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @11:18PM (#40436987)
It's nowhere near as fast as Everything on Windows, but Find Any File[0] aka FAF is a lifesaver for me and I consider it "indispensable" on macOS.

[1] https://findanyfile.app

Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by metadat on Monday May 20, 2024 @10:36PM (#40423445)
This is the first time I've heard of it.

https://www.voidtools.com/

Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by jwoq9118 on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @05:44PM (#40434419)
That plus Microsoft PoweToys (which inexplicably isn’t installed by default) are the only things that make Windows useable to me.
Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by Joe_Cool on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @01:06PM (#40431046)
It's amazing. It does what Google Desktop tried and failed to do on Windows XP. And it's blazingly fast by reading NTFS directly instead of using the Windows API. (OK, back then needing 1GB of RAM was pretty much impossible.)
Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by xnx on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @07:00PM (#40435157)
Does Everything search file contents? I've only used Everything for searching filenames (and it is fantastic for that). Google Desktop's sweet spot was searching within files.
Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by Joe_Cool on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @07:25PM (#40435468)
The stable version cannot. 1.5 Alpha can do it. It can also index properties (as in resolution, author, song/movie length, etc.)

So far I would recommend that one, it has tons of new features (including a change journal that shows renames, moves and deletes in real time) and I didn't experience a single bug yet. And it is even faster.

https://www.voidtools.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=9787#new

Re:Introducing Copilot+ PCs by xnx on Tuesday May 21, 2024 @08:03PM (#40435794)
Wow. I had no idea such a significant capability expansion was in the works!