I am wondering, given the absolute excellence of DTPO, why DevnoTechnologies (DT) doesn’t create a complementary product that will quickly search the hard drive using a custom index.
Although DT’s EasyFind is a suitable Spotlight replacement for (very, very) basic searches, it does not use an index and is thus so slow it can’t really be used in production contexts. Also, EasyFind forces you to “know” or do successive (possibly slow) searches whether you’re looking for a file name, file contents, etc.
And, as I was told by DT support, DTPO is not meant as a Spotlight replacement. (What and where to use DTPO’s “Index” feature is somewhat confusing then.)
I’ve been looking for a long time for a real Mac search tool that would find EVERY File and find them fast. Foxtrot Professional Search is an example of such a tool, but I found a serious bug in their current version (5.0.2). Plus, the the company does not seem to be very responsive.
The other “Spotlight Front-ends” are disappointing since they don’t find files not indexed by Spotlight … and that’s a lot of them (not indexed or found, that is).
For example, try to find a Java installation on your Mac. Spotlight won’t find it. Or, try to find a string “inside” a plist inside an “app” file in your /Applications folder. Spotlight won’t find it. DTPO won’t find it - even if you index your /Applications folder. (ok, DTPO isn’t a substitute for Spotlight. Check.)
We clearly need a tool suited for these searches.
I therefore hope DT creates a complementary product to DTPO soon (and that I’m not the only one who wants to see such a cool new product)!
Comments?
- m