| Re: Foxtrot 6.0 search delay [message #607 is a reply to message #606] |
Wed, 16 August 2017 15:14   |
FoxTrot Engineering
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Registered: April 2020
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Sergei Mikheyev wrote:
> 1. Foxtrot 6.0 often takes quite a long time to execute a search. The
> program seems to hang and the round wheel keeps turning sometimes for as
> long as a few minutes.
Two different things must be distinguished here: search speed, and document preview speed. As you noticed, no document is previewed before you explicitly select one, so I assume you are actually talking of search speed.
Multiple things can slow down search speed:
- searching a remote index (shared by a FoxTrot Pro or FoxTrot Server on another machine)
- searching an index while indexing / updating is occurring
- using the "includes the exact string" operator
- using the "includes the regular expression" operator
- performing a search that finds more than ten thousands files, if the relevance slider has been set to "show all items"
Does "round wheel keeps turning" refer to the spinning cursor (colorful beachball), meaning that FoxTrot is temporarily frozen, or the gray circular spinner, at the bottom of the result list, meaning that the application is not frozen but is waiting for search results?
If you get the beachball, the most probable cause is the relevance slider set to "show all items". If that is not the cause, you can launch Activity Monitor.app (from /Applications/Utilities), type "foxtrot" in the toolbar search field, and select FoxTrot Professional Search in the process list. Then perform a search in FoxTrot, and while it hangs, choose "sample process" in Activity Monitor's gear popup menu. Then send me the result file privately.
If you get the gray circular spinner, avoid searching an index while it is indexing, and only use "exact string" or "regular expression" when you really need these functionalities.
Jérôme - CTM Engineering
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when those words were highlighted in the respective text, if viewed in
the preview drawer."
FoxTrot Personal Search review on www.softpedia.com
Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch
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Jérôme - FoxTrot Engineering
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