Post #220,404
8/22/05 10:00:44 AM
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Anyone tried Google Desktop Search v2 yet?
It looks interesting. I'm a little concerned about upgrading as GDS v1 is acting a bit peculiar for me at the moment (it's grabbing 100% of the CPU even when it says it has paused the indexing).
[link|http://desktop.google.com/screenshots.html|Screenshots].
Who wants to be the guinea pig?
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #220,406
8/22/05 10:19:48 AM
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Volunteer?
To make a perfectly adequate CPU run like a 386sx?
They had better have made some serious improvements...and for now I say "Not I".
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Post #220,408
8/22/05 10:32:11 AM
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Eh?
Working like a dream here.
Peter
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Post #220,410
8/22/05 11:06:56 AM
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Installing v2 now. Will report back.
Peter
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Post #220,411
8/22/05 11:11:57 AM
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It's got some problems.
I'm running Win2k + SP4. I have something like 550 GB of local storage.
My GDS directory is:
C:\\Documents and Settings\\Me\\Local Settings\\Application Data\\Google\\Google Desktop Search> ----- 1,198,529K
It has never finished indexing... :-( It's at 78% at the moment.
You?
What's more disconcerting is that if I tell it to Pause Indexing when the CPU load is 100% (due to whatever it's doing that causes it to grab the CPU in a stranglehold even though it's only supposed to index when the system is idle), then it doesn't. I have to kill the GDS process to get the CPU back to normal.
Cheers,
Scott.
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Post #220,413
8/22/05 11:23:28 AM
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Dunno yet, only just installed.
Sidebar is the least sucky implementation of this sort of thing that i've seen (the DesktopSidebar project thing is way too intrusive), but I'm of the opinion that sidebars suck as a concept.
Performance seems OK for now.
More as it happens.
Peter
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Post #220,416
8/22/05 11:30:48 AM
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I've not tried v2 yet. Thankee.
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Post #220,432
8/22/05 1:21:27 PM
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That was my issue
GDS decided I was idle when I wasn't...and made the machine unworkable. Same OS/SP combo as yours. Not as much storage on my machine, though if it was going through all network shares I have a shade more than half a tera..
I uninstalled...figuring the time savings minimal compared to the pain being caused.
Like the idea behind it...first implementation wasn't too good for me though.
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Post #220,512
8/22/05 9:00:51 PM
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There isn't a Linux version, is there?
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Post #220,515
8/22/05 9:25:57 PM
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Doesn't look like it. XP and 2k (SP3+) at the moment.
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Post #220,520
8/22/05 9:39:19 PM
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Why would you need one? Use locate(1)
-YendorMike
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Post #220,523
8/22/05 9:46:53 PM
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I was being facetious. :-)
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Post #220,572
8/23/05 1:40:51 AM
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Great for searching email!
Peter
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Post #220,513
8/22/05 9:01:42 PM
8/22/05 9:01:58 PM
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[dup sorry]
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Edited by static
Aug. 22, 2005, 09:01:58 PM EDT
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