| Re: How to increase RAM allocation? [message #1033 is a reply to message #1032] |
Thu, 23 April 2020 23:14   |
Lrpom
Messages: 8
Registered: April 2020
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Thank you for your prompt reply, Jérôme. I've reviewed the entire FAQ you
provided, paying special attention to the sections on parsing and trying
Xpdf. The files I'm trying to index are correctly parsed and Xpdf actually
took longer and returned worse results than the Spotlight default engine
when tried on a test file of approximately 3 GB.
Due to some unavoidable software and hardware limitations, I'm stuck with
OS X 10.8.5 on an older laptop, so I'm trying to find a way to speed up the
indexing using FTPro 5.7. If I index the data using FTPro 7 on another
machine running OS X 10.12, would I be able to copy the index into the
Foxtrot folder on my laptop and search it using FTPro 5.7?
On Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 6:18:42 AM UTC-4, CTM Engineering wrote:
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> Lrpom wrote:
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>> Is it possible to increase the RAM allocation in FTPro 5.7 running on MAC
>> OS 10.8.5? I'm trying to index a folder with approximately 350 GB of data
>> (mostly pdfs and MS Word files) and the index status has now increased
> the
>> estimated remaining time to 96 DAYS!
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> No; RAM is dynamically allocated based on needs and available resources.
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> FoxTrot 7 (which requires macOS 10.12) has considerably improved indexing
> performance.
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> However there are some things you can do to resolve this issue; we are
> currently refining our online FAQ, but you can check a preliminary version
> of this question here:
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> https://download.ctmdev.com/indexing-large-data.html
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> Be sure to read "Make sure your data files are correctly parsed" and
> "Beware of certain types of PDF documents", as this is probably the cause
> of your problem.
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> Jérôme - FoxTrot Engineering
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> "FoxTrot Professional blows Spotlight completely out of the water,
> hands down. Not even close.
> FoxTrot is a must for me. It indexes the drive more efficiently
> than any program out there. The launcher and preview functions are
> top of the line. Truly a gift, this thing is."
> FoxTrot Professional Search user comment
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> Download a demo version from www.foxtrot.ch
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