dfs-minded / indexer-plus-plus

Indexer++ official repository

What is Indexer++ ?

Indexer++ is an open-source desktop files and folders search utility. It is a Windows search replacement which is faster, supports entire file system search, filters and more. The Core search engine is written on C++ 11, uses Win API and STL, which ensures high speed and saves memory. Indexer++ directly reads and parses the NTFS filesystem master files table.

You can search your files using a command-line as well. ifind (Indexer++ find) implements a subset of the options of the Linux find command, so for Linux users it is easy to start right away. For those, who are not familiar with find command here is options description with some examples.

Documentation

Brief General Design Doc.

To build Indexer++ from source

Sources can be built using Visual Studio 17, .NET Framework 4.0. Suggested target platform is x86.

IndexerGUI project has a dependency on a "Hardcodet.NotifyIcon.Wpf" which can be installed using NuGet package manager in Visual Studio.

Please read the CONTRIBUTING.md for details on how to contribute to this project.

Indexer++ regex feature powered by RE2 regular expression engine.

Links

See the Indexer++ official site for more information. For bugs and feature requests relay to https://github.com/dfs-minded/indexer-plus-plus/issues.

indexer-plus-plus's Issues

Add CI and automated Code Metric Tools

I think it would be a good idea to some CI with appveyor and code metric tools with codefactor.

Both are free for open source projects, and will have additional checks when a PR is made, and can automatically deploy to releases when a tag is pushed to master.

Crash on "Save as..."

When saving files, during formatting the output result, some files seems to be already deleted, which causes the crash while trying to access them.

Ability to delete/copy multiple selected files.

Revive icons view functionality in WPF

Save as HTML

Currently search results can be saved as TXT and CSV files. I would appreciate an option to save search results as HTML file.

Search using path

History of recent queries with autocomplete

For example, as in Google search URL.

Open by default in the taskbar notification area

When starting windows the window opens on the desktop, it would be better if it opened by default in the taskbar notification area.

Thanks for this application, I hope to be able to replace soon "everything" by voidtools which is super efficient but not opensource unfortunately.

Discover and index network folders

The user should be able to select in GUI to index discovered network drives.

There might be issues with permissions: to access MFT you need administrative rights on that machine, so maybe also give a hint to the user if they do not have permissions for that.

One more question to address is how to listen to the update journal events (maybe easy, but maybe will need some workaround to fetch the updates).

Allow user to select folders to index or maybe exclude from indexing

If the server is too big, and/or there are lots of huge servers in a network, create GUI and logic which enables the user to select or maybe exclude particular folders from indexing.

Run clang-tidy tool

fail to run on win10-1903

the window does not appears at all.

Crash on right-click

When I right-click on a file/folder in Indexer++ 0.5 Beta the program immediately crashes, screen:

This happens under Windows 8 x64.

If it can be pf any help I can provide crash dump (.dmp) files.

Crash if UserSettings.xml is missing

If configuration file UserSettings.xml is missing Indexer++ crashes. I suggest that if UserSettings.xml is not to be found in program folder for some reason (deleted accidentally for example), Indexer++ should be able to re-create it automatically in stead of crashing.

Parallel sorting for too many cores

Fix Sorter::SortParallel to handle excessive splitting of the input on the machines with 8+ cores.

Fuzzy search. Implement taking in consideration possible misspelling

Edit distance

Implement fuzzy pattern search

Implement GUI on Qt

indexer-plus-plus.com Database Connection Error

The official website returns 'Error establishing a database connection'.

Freezing when you're doing research.

I noticed some freeze when I write in the search input field,

Save window position

Currently Indexer++ (as of version 0.5 Beta) saves window size but does not save window position on desktop so the users needs to reposition it manually after program restart. Please add an option in settings file (UserSettings.xml) to save window position on desktop.

Program settings

Currently (as of version 0.5 Beta) some Indexer++ settings can be chosen only during installation:

• Autorun on Startup
• Context Menu Entry
• Add to PATH variable for Current User
• Add to PATH variable for local machine
• Desktop Shortcut

It would be more convenient if in stead of re-installing the program there is Settings menu (perhaps between Filters and Help menus) where the user could toggle on/off autostart/context menu integration, etc. Some additional options may be added in the future.

Add files tagging possibility

Compilation with /clr or /clr:pure

Find all forward declarations from std namespace (which can lead to undefined behavior) and replace these classes with custom wrappers (like std::mutex and std::thread) in the same way you did with std::atomic in IndexManager.h

Turkish character problem

Hello. Thanks for the software.

In Turkish, i and İ are not different. It gives different results.

Backslash

This command:

ifind / -iname "*.mp3" -fprintf C:\Results.txt %h%%p

is giving me an extra '%' character in every occurrence. What I´m doing wrong?

TY

Revive drives insertion and removal tracking.

Finish implementation of file thumbnails.

Reimplement functionality of icons view.
Show only first 1000 results (consider may be a reduction to 500 for machines with operating memory less than 2 GB).
As a mitigation, do not update UI when filesystem changes.

Indexer++ Beta v0.4 does not open on windows

I installed it, opened it, and it only opens in the notification area, but when I double click it, the icon just dissapears. Running windows 10 pro x64.

HDMI connection

Check the crash, when HDMI cable connection established.

Embed icon into the executable

It seems that the icon is not embedded into the executable (Indexer++ Beta.exe), screen:

When "Desktop Shortcut" option is not chosen on program installation the user needs to manually change the program icon.

Request: Updated program Icon

The current program Icon looks pretty out of place and awfully fuzzy pinned to the taskbar.

Data races in IndexManager

ReadingMFTFinished and DisableIndexRequested in IndexManager must be atomic to prevent data races issues. Implement pImpl idiom on IndexManager, to hide usage of atomic, which is not compiling with /clr. (And remove that unnecessary volatile!)

explorer context menu can't show indexer++ window if it is working in systray already.

context menu's right click can't start for search in a folder, if indexer++ already working in tray.

Make settings persistent across sessions

Make settings persistent across sessions.

Portable version

Please consider releasing a native portable version of Indexer++. I supose that it would be easy since it seems that Indexer++ is portable by design- program settings are saved in UserSettings.xml file inside program folder. Currently the user need to extract the installer (Indexer++ Beta Installer.exe) to avoid installation.

Implement builder pattern for Query creation

multiple file selection

is it possible to have this functioning? i can't actually select and operate on more than one file per time...