Re: Looking for document and file organisation tools
On Sat, 7 Mar 2015 10:15:45 +1100
Charlie <ariestao@ipstarmail.com.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Mar 2015 10:11:26 -0500 Celejar sent:
>
> > I love recoll - I've been using it for years, and I find it
> > invaluable. Not the most polished software in the world, but it
> > really works wonders for me. [It's in the Debian official repos.]
>
> I used it for quite a time myself, but there was something that I
> didn't like, I think it produced huge indexes or something that put me
> off? I had a smaller hard drive then.
Yep - mine are 6+ GB, for a system containing only several tens of GB
(at most) of indexable documents.
> Now I just use the find feature of mc, or grep.
Doesn't that take quite a long time and lots of disk access for large
collections of documents?
> I might have to look at recoll again, I just read a bit about it on the
> net.
>
> Thanks for jogging my memory.
> Charlie
Celejar
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