Why Don't Other Softwares Use the MFT?
Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2016 4:57 pm
Why Don't Other Softwares (generally) Use the MFT?
I say this as I'm running my duplicate file cleaner, that I know will take a good 15+ minutes to scan a directory tree of 1M files (including 30K directories).
Doing the same, including indexing sizes, in Everything is a matter of seconds.
Once that is done, sizedupe: is already done, then its all down to computing & comparing hashes.
(In my case, I'm doing a name+size+content compare.)
So why don't they?
If they did, just think how much more efficient they could be.
I say this as I'm running my duplicate file cleaner, that I know will take a good 15+ minutes to scan a directory tree of 1M files (including 30K directories).
Doing the same, including indexing sizes, in Everything is a matter of seconds.
Once that is done, sizedupe: is already done, then its all down to computing & comparing hashes.
(In my case, I'm doing a name+size+content compare.)
So why don't they?
If they did, just think how much more efficient they could be.