Slow Search...

Hi,

first of all, my technical environment:
I use DT Pro on my MacBookPro which is equiped with a HDD that is much faster than the shipped one. And for the security, the archive is inside a sparse bundle that is encrypted.

I bought Devon Think Pro and a Fujitsu Scan Snap scanner to scan and ocr all my fully filled “Leitz Ordner”. I have scanned for about 2 or 3 month now and came up with an archive size of about 20 GB. About 11 GB of this is OCRed PDF files.

Whenever I search for some text inside DT the machine slows down and reacts with the funny ball… Sometimes I have to wait for more than 90 seconds or longer after having typed 4-5 words.

Is there a best practice to handle bigger archives or is DT not made for this approach?

Hope to hear from you,
Mirko Haaser
Bremen, Germany

How many items & words does your database contain (see File > Database Properties)? How much free RAM is available?

BTW:
If you’re using the toolbar search, disabling the prefix search (see popup menu) should improve the performance. Or use the search window, see Tools > Search.

I have 1.515.461 words, 82.139.375 in sum… I will try the other hints… I have 4 GB RAM, more than 1.5 GB are free.