UI hangs when doing a large search-in-files
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N++ is my preferred place to search files/folders but this is about the only area I see performance issues in a great app.
If it’s searching a large set of files I often see the whole UI lock up immediately clicking ‘Find’ - even a “not responding” status - before the progress bar appears. I’m often working on resource-limited machines (disk especially) so I wonder if it’s waiting on a single very slow API call to enumerate the files to search or something, before the searching itself happens (which seems to work fine).
Hardly critical but a hung app is never pretty and makes one wonder if it is broken or just slow.
If you do enumerate the files first, it’d be neat in the progress bar to show how many there are?
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I agree. This is about the only negative about this fine application. It doesn’t seem to be related to overall performance of the PC, as this also happens on fast PCs.
Sometimes, after about 10 minutes or so, it comes back, starting to enumerate results. Sometimes it doesn’t come back at all.
I would be great to bump up the priority of this.
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Maybe give an example of the search you’re attempting.
Probably only knowing the circumstances better can others offer advice on how to possibly improve things for you.
