I'm going some tech support for my brother today, and that's meant
looking "under the hood" of his Windows 10 machine.
And it is astounding how poorly Windows handles indexing content.
I had to uninstall OneDrive and set it up again from scratch and in the course of that I moved the contents that had previously been
synchronized to two folders with "(Old)" added to make sure that nothing
got lost when we did it.
And I wasn't surprised when resetting his connections to his OneDrive
store and the company Sharepoint store set off a flurry of indexing. I wasn't even surprised that that took a bit of time to finish; I was re-downloading a lot of files which from the perspective of Windows, all needed to be indexed anew.
What was completely surprising was that simply moving the those two
"Old" folders immediately caused Windows to re-index that content! I
decided to clean up the two separate "Old" stores into a single folder,
and all of a sudden, the indexing which was at 0 in Settings:Search:Searching Windows
Windows isn't smart enough to recognize that these are all files that
its already indexed and they're now just in a new location!
About 80,000 files were move about 30 minutes ago, and the re-indexing
isn't even 25% done!
If I do a similar thing on macOS, it's done almost before the files have finished the move.
Alan wrote on 8/9/2025 6:30 PM:Believe me, I have.
I'm going some tech support for my brother today, and that's meant
looking "under the hood" of his Windows 10 machine.
And it is astounding how poorly Windows handles indexing content.
I had to uninstall OneDrive and set it up again from scratch and in
the course of that I moved the contents that had previously been
synchronized to two folders with "(Old)" added to make sure that
nothing got lost when we did it.
And I wasn't surprised when resetting his connections to his OneDrive
store and the company Sharepoint store set off a flurry of indexing. I
wasn't even surprised that that took a bit of time to finish; I was
re-downloading a lot of files which from the perspective of Windows,
all needed to be indexed anew.
What was completely surprising was that simply moving the those two
"Old" folders immediately caused Windows to re-index that content! I
decided to clean up the two separate "Old" stores into a single
folder, and all of a sudden, the indexing which was at 0 in
Settings:Search:Searching Windows
Windows isn't smart enough to recognize that these are all files that
its already indexed and they're now just in a new location!
About 80,000 files were move about 30 minutes ago, and the re-indexing
isn't even 25% done!
If I do a similar thing on macOS, it's done almost before the files
have finished the move.
So why don't you tell him about mac OS?’ Then you wouldn't have to do
all that work taking care of his shitty windows computer.
his next machine just might be a Mac
On 2025-08-09 16:55, Hank Rogers wrote:
Alan wrote on 8/9/2025 6:30 PM:Believe me, I have.
I'm going some tech support for my brother today, and that's meant
looking "under the hood" of his Windows 10 machine.
And it is astounding how poorly Windows handles indexing content.
I had to uninstall OneDrive and set it up again from scratch and in
the course of that I moved the contents that had previously been
synchronized to two folders with "(Old)" added to make sure that
nothing got lost when we did it.
And I wasn't surprised when resetting his connections to his OneDrive
store and the company Sharepoint store set off a flurry of indexing. I
wasn't even surprised that that took a bit of time to finish; I was
re-downloading a lot of files which from the perspective of Windows,
all needed to be indexed anew.
What was completely surprising was that simply moving the those two
"Old" folders immediately caused Windows to re-index that content! I
decided to clean up the two separate "Old" stores into a single
folder, and all of a sudden, the indexing which was at 0 in
Settings:Search:Searching Windows
Windows isn't smart enough to recognize that these are all files that
its already indexed and they're now just in a new location!
About 80,000 files were move about 30 minutes ago, and the re-indexing
isn't even 25% done!
If I do a similar thing on macOS, it's done almost before the files
have finished the move.
So why don't you tell him about mac OS?’ Then you wouldn't have to do
all that work taking care of his shitty windows computer.
There was a time when he couldn't use a Mac because there was certain software for his industry that wasn't available.
But now he's using that software via a Windows Remote Access connection
to a server operated by the developer, his next machine just might be a Mac.
:-)
I'm going some tech support for my brother today, and that's meant looking "under the hood" of his Windows 10 machine.
And it is astounding how poorly Windows handles indexing content.
I had to uninstall OneDrive and set it up again from scratch and in the course of that I moved the contents that had previously been synchronized to two folders with "(Old)" added to make sure that nothing got lost when we did it.
And I wasn't surprised when resetting his connections to his OneDrive store and the company Sharepoint store set off a flurry of indexing. I wasn't even surprised that that took a bit of time to finish; I was re-downloading a lot of files which from the perspective of Windows, all needed to be indexed anew.
What was completely surprising was that simply moving the those two "Old" folders immediately caused Windows to re-index that content! I decided to clean up the two separate "Old" stores into a single folder, and all of a sudden, the indexing which was at 0 in Settings:Search:Searching Windows
Windows isn't smart enough to recognize that these are all files that its already indexed and they're now just in a new location!
About 80,000 files were move about 30 minutes ago, and the re-indexing isn't even 25% done!
If I do a similar thing on macOS, it's done almost before the files have finished the move.
Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
On 2025-08-09 16:55, Hank Rogers wrote:
Alan wrote on 8/9/2025 6:30 PM:Believe me, I have.
I'm going some tech support for my brother today, and that's meant
looking "under the hood" of his Windows 10 machine.
And it is astounding how poorly Windows handles indexing content.
I had to uninstall OneDrive and set it up again from scratch and in
the course of that I moved the contents that had previously been
synchronized to two folders with "(Old)" added to make sure that
nothing got lost when we did it.
And I wasn't surprised when resetting his connections to his OneDrive >>>> store and the company Sharepoint store set off a flurry of indexing. I >>>> wasn't even surprised that that took a bit of time to finish; I was
re-downloading a lot of files which from the perspective of Windows,
all needed to be indexed anew.
What was completely surprising was that simply moving the those two
"Old" folders immediately caused Windows to re-index that content! I
decided to clean up the two separate "Old" stores into a single
folder, and all of a sudden, the indexing which was at 0 in
Settings:Search:Searching Windows
Windows isn't smart enough to recognize that these are all files that >>>> its already indexed and they're now just in a new location!
About 80,000 files were move about 30 minutes ago, and the re-indexing >>>> isn't even 25% done!
If I do a similar thing on macOS, it's done almost before the files
have finished the move.
So why don't you tell him about mac OS?’ Then you wouldn't have to do
all that work taking care of his shitty windows computer.
There was a time when he couldn't use a Mac because there was certain
software for his industry that wasn't available.
But now he's using that software via a Windows Remote Access connection
to a server operated by the developer, his next machine just might be a Mac. >>
:-)
You should buy him a new Mac for his next birthday! Because heās still really using windows; just some other personās windows machine. Thatās pretty pathetic.
Donāt give up. He may come to his senses and embrace appleās wonderful ecosystem.
I'm going some tech support for my brother today, and that's meant
looking "under the hood" of his Windows 10 machine.
And it is astounding how poorly Windows handles indexing content.
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