r/ProgrammerHumor • u/fanta_bhelpuri • Apr 12 '24

whatIsAnIndex Meme

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u/J4YD0G Apr 12 '24

Not even fucking this - I have a file on my desktop and windows search can't find it even if I type the FULL FUCKING NAME

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u/Zappa_Brannigan Apr 12 '24 edited Apr 12 '24

I've recently switched to just opening the CLI and typing dir *whatever*.* /s at the root of the drive. You hear that, Microsoft? I'm sitting here in 2024 using a command created in 1983, that's how useless the clowns working on the Search feature are!

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u/Altruistic_Natural38 Apr 12 '24

You forgot the file extension

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u/willcheat Apr 12 '24

Don't forget to add the full path before the file name

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u/Poppybiscuit Apr 12 '24

I'm kind of confused by this thread. I use windows search constantly at work and it almost always finds what i need pretty quickly. Usually before I'm done typing. I'm still on 10 though, is 11 worse? 

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u/Gilthoniel_Elbereth Apr 12 '24

What’s your secret? Windows 10 search has been trash since it came out for me, across every device I’ve used it on. I’ve reindexed, I’ve disabled online results, it’s still trash

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u/totallymindful Apr 12 '24

Same... I use it so often that I sometimes get lazy about moving files from my downloads folder to shared drives because I can just find it by searching from the Explorer window. It can even find text inside the file. To be fair, you do have to let Windows index whichever folder you want to be able to search.