| Re: Indexing content... About 23 days... [message #440 is a reply to message #439] |
Mon, 31 October 2016 11:50  |
jonathanalix via foxt
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hello jean michel!
great!! thank you so much for your answer. this helped a lot! the "trick"
to create more indexes worked perfect! now i'm happy and will purchase the
program.
kind regards,
ivo
Am Sonntag, 30. Oktober 2016 23:53:11 UTC+1 schrieb foxtrot-search:
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> Sir,
>
> Thank you for evaluating FoxTrot Professional.
>
> My first impression is that you are throwing a bit too much information to
> be indexed in one go on your specific configuration. Suggest that, as you
> are experimeting, you create three or four indexes (from FoxTrot Pro’s
> Manage Indices…) window each with a portion of your data. This will let you
> better analyze which folders index quickly and which do not.
>
> The following factors are essential in building indices:
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> - CPU speed
> - Number of CPU cores. If you have several indices, each index creation or
> update will make optimal use of a pair of cores
> - i/o speed to access the data to be indexed. If you want to see if I/O
> speed the issue, try and copy the 700GB or a part thereof to an SSD or fast
> local hard disk and compare indexing speeds when from the SSD or fast local
> hard disk and from the NAS
>
> You can also launch FoxTrot Pro while holding the option and command keys
> pressed and select “Manage Metadata Importers”. From there, select only the
> essential importers for your data, leaving the other types off. Then
> rebuild an index. Especially turn off third-party metadata importers which
> may be slow in extracting text from their file types.
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> Finally, I suggest that the follow-up to your issue be done via support
> e-mail (use the help menu “Send a message to FoxTrot Pro support”) rather
> than to the discussion group.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> jean michel/ctm qa
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> On Oct 30, 2016, at 10:09 PM, 'evil hinko' via foxtrot-search foxtrot...@googlegroups.com > wrote:
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> Hello!
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> First of all, my first test with foxtrot (with only some data) impressed
> me really! This is exactly what I was searching for! Especially the
> functionality to index my NAS.
>
> So after my first test I wanted to index my NAS with about 700 GB data.
> These data contains pictures as tiff, jpg etc, illustration as ai, eps
> etc, documents like doc, txt, rft etc. mails as emlx, pdfs, indesign,
> photoshop... etc. (graphic designer files).
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> The first step indexing was quite fast. But when starting indexing the
> content it's getting slow... really slow! And at the moment it's telling me
> it would take about 23 days (slowly getting more). But i can see (because
> of the "filex of"-status and in the log), it's working. Is there any way to
> speed up this process? At the moment I do it with WLAN. Could this be "the
> break"? Should I exclude some kind of files from content indexing which are
> "typically" for this problem? Or should I "just wait"?
>
> Thank you in advance for help!
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