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unless it's improperly implemented

it's corporate laptop, corporate software, so I'd bet it's really bad ;)

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might be - I've got full disk encryption

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it took 1 sec for the results to show up on my laptop... soooo... are you calling me a liar? ;)

damn it, I mean 1 min, not 1 sec

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... with a shortcut guide. I love you.  :-* (Not literally, but... alright.)

yeah, every plugin will have additional shortcut listing and I love you too :* ;)

No, I am not :) - but compare 1sec partition-wide find to what a normal directory-traversal search would take :P

well yes, you're right obviously :p

btw. someone added entry to german wikipedia  (yes I'm excited)

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everything is still pretty darn fast on the first search

it took 1 sec for the results to show up on my laptop... soooo... are you calling me a liar? ;)

Btw. I've created a wiki for Proto (it's coming slowly...)

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Well I gave it a shot and the speed is impressive although it searches through the whole disk the first time & then stores it in memory - that is the reason for the speed and that is really nice. Now check this screenshot: http://i43.tinypic.com/2hs192v.jpg and you'll get why this is not the best idea ;) but hey, if it works for you - that's ok with me, I never wanted to force anyone into using Proto - if you like it, great, if not - oh well, just wait a while and you'll like it ;)

ps.
yeah, Proto was designed with keyboard zealots in mind ;)

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Welcome to the site Miechu  :up:

Well no offense but I don't have the time to hang out here....

I'm glad that you, at least, think about a written documentation.

It's going to be no to easy to tackle but... well as you guys pointed out - it's inevitable

Everything search util does provide instant access to any file on your system

No offense but believing that is a bit... naive... and personally I don't want ANYTHING to scan my drive. Not to mention the situation when I'd like to type in something like MainForm.cs - and I'd get something like 1k list ;)

which makes it one of the most powerful keyboard utils available (if not the most powerful).

well describe "power"... the most powerful keyboard util is and always will be - console or cmd.exe if you will. Searching is just one thing... for eg. in Proto you can regex rename multiple files at once - that is powerful wouldn't you agree? And if you'd know that if you rename file from image.png to image.jpg, Proto will convert the image file from .png to .jpg - combine that with regex rename function and imo that is just awsome (one must love thyself) ;)

cheers!

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Hello everybody

I found this site via the referrers in google analytics. First of all I appriciate everything that I've read here - the good as the bad things.

There is no actual documentation. To be actually able to use Proto, you'll have to watch the author's screencasts. I hope there will be a better documentation with a later version, so Proto becomes more attractive for rather lazy users who want to RTFM, not WTFV (watch that fine video).

Well to be honest I thought that video would be more attractive but it turns out to be a weakness not an advantage... Well I'll just have to sit down and write some documentation.

FWIW, as a native English speaker, I find his accent and pronunciation, combined with the audio quality, hard to understand as well.  Lots of feedback and very bass-y, too.

Yeah... I know... I'll try to redo the screencasts but since I don't have any reasonable mic the quality is shitty...

I assumed, whilst i was watching the videos, that Proto could identify every file on the system without having to go through specific paths - it can't (unless i'm mistaken).

Well if I'm not mistaken you want to search the whole drive for a specific file - for me (no offense) this is just plain stupid. I believe in herarchical order of things so that I know that in my folder Projects I'm searching for a specific project and not a mp3 file or an email. That's just my mindset and I don't want to convince anybody that my approch is the right one.

No way could I use them for a file manager, no matter how efficient they might be in the right hands.

Well I'm trying to do assign them "the most expectable way" - eg: ctrl+t (opens new tab), ctrl+w (closes tab), ctrl+c (copies path), ctrl+shift+c (copies filename), etc. and you can always lookup what you are searching via F1 - there is a searchable list of shortcuts.

cheers
Miechu

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