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Veni, vidi, vici.
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...when 1 GB was a phenomenally huge amount of disk space (my first hard disk was 20MB!)
Now Windows gives me a red "running low on disk space bar" and I still have 3GB left!!! 
Marc
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I hit that with 10 GB left (on a 1 TB drive).
That was caused by the search index file growing to 647 GB in size due to a bug in the automated defrag and another bug in the way Windows handles and limits the sizes of some system files, like the search index (can't remember where I saw that, I think it was on MSDN, but I am not sure, and Google nor Bing are of much help right now, although Bing gives somewhat relevant results, whereas the big G gives some rather odd results). I ended up having to terminate the search service and delete the file. An update shortly after fixed the issues.
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: That was caused by the search index
Bleah. One of the first things I do when installing Windows is turn off search indexing. I know where my files are.
Marc
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I keep it on, although I don't use the search much. I mainly use the search to look for files I know I have but inadvertently saved in or moved to a different folder. Half of the time recent files stuff doesn't work as it should (I don't know why. I get random 'File Not Found' errors, even if the file exists.)
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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I lost my trust in the Windows searches a very long time ago. Total Commander is much more accurate, and in my opinion more usable as well.
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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I use Everything search, since it bypasses Windows entirely and just reads the drive header.  Only for NTFS drives though, but it can filter hundreds of thousands of filenames as you type without any pausing, from my experience.
Freeware, too.
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Windows Search is turned off immediately after installation 
Glad someone else is using Everything because I find it awesome. It's quick, reliable, has a small footprint, I can't say enough praise for it Fell in love on the first search, good times.
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Thanks for the link. Excellent Utility. 
Now I can Remember Everything.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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I don't, but I use Agent Ransack to find them, not Windows's search.
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for Agent Ransack! Great free product! I find it particularly good at finding specific text in code files. Yesterday, it was 'document.all' which doesn't work on IE 11.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Marc Clifton wrote: I know where my files are.
Hah! You use files? I just do all my work in one massive Notepad page. Then I have a spiral-ring notebook at my desk with a list of everything and the paragraph number where I can find it. And to keep my hard-drive really streaming, I don't save anything. If I ever have to shut down my computer, I just print out the Notepad page, and then scan it back in on startup.
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kdmote wrote: And to keep my hard-drive really streaming,
I'm surprised you don't use your hard drive as a paper weight to keep the mountain of paper from falling over! 
Marc
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Me too. Plus I know how much of a pain the search engine can be when you keep modifying/creating stuff (such as object files) at a rapid pace.
Even worse, since W8 the search engine also searches the Cloud, and by extension, the entire web. Come on Microsoft, we don't have the storage capacity of the NSA at home just yet! Nor do we wish to serve as NSA botnet!
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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My first hard drive was 10mb in an XT. The drive died within 6 months. It certainly beat using floppies for booting.
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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My first hard drive was a punch card.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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And I bet there was some paperfriggingtape nearby as well... 
If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can.
“We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone
"The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone
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I remember 5 bit paper tape and even worked on printing perforators and tape readers - wonderful noisy mechanical/digital machines. My first computer was a VIC 20 with cassette tape. My first PC was an Amstrad 10MB hard disk and the world was my mollusc. Heady times!
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Yeah... Being 32 years old my first computer was a C64.
From a future historians perspective you had Tesla patenting logic gates and 60 years later everything went *BAM*. What happened here? I don't know. Was it aliens?
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0bx wrote: Yeah... Being 32 years old my first computer was a C64.
Mine was too (SX64 specifically), and I'm 40% older.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Show me a community that obeys the Ten Commandments and I'll show you a less crowded prison system." - Anonymous
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DavidCrow wrote: and I'm 40% older.
So you are 44.8 years old? 
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In my first job we had one hard drive in the company, there were 4 of us on Apple II's running ProDOS and the bose would run builds on a 5MB hard drive. Sounded like a jet taking off when he started it up.
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I worked at one of the first computer stores in the Chicago area and we sold Alpha Micro timesharing systems. We got a CDC Hawk drive 5 MB fixed and 5 MB removable. Our first thought was that we'd never fill it.
Two weeks later...
Psychosis at 10
Film at 11
Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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I never got to see what all they stored on the bosses drive but I bet there was some versioning and other stuff where they probably had it filled too!
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My first hard drive was the second floppy.
Twin floppy system on an RM380Z.
Then a 20MB IBM.
Today we are running a huge server with >lots TB and cloud backup, offsite data and drop box for data transfer.
I still pine for the mid 80's when Joe Public had no access to our systems and we were grand wizards.
How I would rule the roost on my AS400 when I worked in the The City.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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