On Sun, 8 May 2011 07:22:49 -0500
"Rajko M."
1) "using puters for (30) years" Compare that to new user that knows what he/she can see on the screen. To me it seems that such users will benefit of desktop search.
2) "too many disks to easily keep track of" And you say that you don't have use of automated system to track your data :) Maybe some program/utility that will know that some disk is not online, but that will have idea what is on that disk will help you to know not only that you have disk, but also what is on that disk.
:-) I still prefer findutils: 'updatedb' then 'locate <textstring>' If I can remember, roughly, the name of the directory or a partial filename I'm all set. It updates itself every X hours, discreetly. As for offline and nearline devices, creating updated indexes is not that hard. I do it all the time. It only takes a few minutes. IMHO the problem is there are now too many and overlapping 'specialty' (or 'boutique') indexers, each stepping on my and each other's toes when I'm trying to just concentrate on my work. Notwithstanding the added privacy and security implications, if these things just worked silently in the background, virtually undetectable and unobtrusively, I'd have no complaints. But the fact that I was compelled to track the processes down and disable them, then remove them, says a great deal about their efficacy and desirability. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org