Indexing for days and days
My netbook is my school and work computer. It travels with me and as such gets a lot of hibernates and shut downs to enable transport. It has been trying for days to index my 3,300+ files. When I get a shutdown it starts over....I leave it indexing overnight but it only gets through about 1000 of them. So I have a feeling that unless something drastic is changed about the indexing process my computer will be resigned to perpetually updating. And even if it gets out of the endless update loop, I'll get a new resource and we'll get to start over.
Can it not at least pick up an index where it left off before restart?
Jacob Hantla
Pastor/Elder, Grace Bible Church
gbcaz.org
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The problem is it needs to be loaded in the memory to continuously index, and so shutting down the computer will cause it to restart indexing by design. We are looking into our options, and hopefully we can get one of the options rolling in a beta before 4.0, do you have another machine you can test with? Also if you can refrain from shutting down and just keep hibernating it all the time, the memory information doesn't go away. This way I think you have a good chance of finishing it (eventually).
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I am testing it on another machine with a faster processor and more RAM and don't have any problems at all. Thanks for the advice on how to avoid the restarts on indexing. My case is probably one that a number of users will face and needing to modify computer use for the sake of background indexing is fine for me, but may be unacceptable to a number of users.
I appreciate you guys working on fixing this.
I left it on all weekend and it finally finished the index.Jacob Hantla
Pastor/Elder, Grace Bible Church
gbcaz.org0
