Reply To: >15,000 pdfs indexed but zero c:/ drive matches

[A Guy]

Deja Vu:

The initial (Day 1) problem I posted about in this thread was that text-searches yielded ZERO PDF-file matches from the main drive, (C:/ drive).

At some point later, and for 12 days after that post, the programme ‘came good’, doing as originally expected – yielding matches for ALL file types and from ALL drives.

Just now, however, I attempted to run a new search, and the initial problem repeated – ZERO matches for ANY file type from the C:/ drive.

Further, while attempting merely to grab a screenshot to attach to this update, the programme froze. It was completely unresponsive to any mouse click on any part of its window, including the Close (X) at top right corner. It did not indicate “not responding”, and nor did Windows Task Manager. After waiting minutes with no change, I assumed it had frozen permanently and elected to force the programme to shut, via the Task Manager, then relaunch it.

Behaviour was back to normal, (successful searches, all drives) after the re-launch.

I have posted this update on the basis that any feedback on the programme’s behaviours/misbehaviours may benefit its developer(s) toward bug identification and overall improvement, and then, by extension, the user community.

I wonder if issues such as ZERO matches and freezing may have been because it had been running continuously for 12 days, or because I had removed the third (F:/ drive), or from a lack of PC system resources such as ordinary memory for the data files, or RAM for processing, or other, (and if so, what the minimum system resource requirements for the programme are)?

SUGGESTION  8: As is standard practice with many other programmes, if system resources may be performance limiting factors or result in fatal-errors such as freezes, minimum resource requirements for the programme should be specified up front to users, ideally at some point in or during the download and/or install processes, but also through on-screen prompts over time if and as the programme recognises resources (such as PC memory) dwindling and potentially becoming limiting.