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Mar 27, 2004, 12:04 AM
 
Hey all,

I work with a lot of text and pdf files ... I add to my 'collection' quite rapidly, and I refer to them quite often too. I was wondering if there is some way for me to either (1) speed up Panther's supposed auto indexing or (2) prioritise which folder I need to index and keep up to date constantly.

I almost always find that I can't search my files by their content, even files that have been added quite a while ago. I could manually index my documents folder once in a while, but that is a pain in the *ss when you got gigabytes of data to index through.

I know I know, I should have a more efficient way of organising my stuff. I do sort of ... but I can't always remember how to browse through my 'forest' of folder trees I use to keep my papers and files organised

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Oct 16, 2004, 06:22 AM
 
I'm wondering the same thing... The last time my home folder was indexed was september 3, and I know I've added many text files since then.

is there some way to jog the alleged auto-indexing into more frequent action?

Thnxs,

bd
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Oct 16, 2004, 07:08 AM
 
Get into on your Hard drive
click on the down arrow by the content index
click on the index now button.
     
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Oct 16, 2004, 09:15 AM
 
Originally posted by Maflynn:
Get into on your Hard drive
click on the down arrow by the content index
click on the index now button.
Thanks, but that is manual indexing. I am interested in juicing up the rate of automatic indexing. But maybe there is no such thing.

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Oct 16, 2004, 11:12 AM
 
Wait for Tiger!

Next april indexing files will be consigned to history.
     
   
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