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Isn't this the desktop search that every of those "big boys" are doing: google, yahoo, microsoft? Incidentally is there an open source implementation of desktop search? in any language? I interviewed someone last year who was doing it in java, he actually spent two years working on it, apparently the big boys killed his business, or his supporters' interest.
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Re^2: Monitoring filesystem for file/folder changes
by Ace128 (Hermit) on Jun 05, 2005 at 19:19 UTC
    Hehe, I suppose.. Sort of. Kinda fun that way. I dont mind google. They are impossible to beat anyway (dont have 10000000+ Pcs in an array exactly...), and I like google! M$? Well, its funny... the thing I've done is REALLY fast (thanx to mySQL/SQLite). Basic and simple thing this, really, but I havent seen anyone doing it, so I thought I do it myself! The "bigboys" aint "done" yet as far as I know. I mean, have they released anything yet to use? Besides, Im not sure they gonna make it _that_ interactive as I want it to be (you can klick findings and delete/run them?). How about finding just a particular folder? (no file, no path, JUST FOLDER!) Delete the whole chosen dir? Well, thats the 'basics' the app can do now... Later on it can be more complicated queries... Natrually, if this was in the OS, some of these interactive things would be kinda build in already...

    And yea, M$ was supposed to have this new db filesystem in Longhorn, but apparently that is also taken out (WinFS). Too bad M$...