Index - Pause Updates : renaming, and other thoughts

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meteorquake
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Index - Pause Updates : renaming, and other thoughts

Post by meteorquake »

On v. 1.5 you can pause the index updates, presumably to make the current list static. However when it is paused and you rename a file, you don't see the new name until you start the index updates again, whereas it would be good to propagate that rename through for immediate reflection in the display.
More generally in my experience it's not so much that you'd really ever want the index paused (perhaps there are cases), but you would generally want the list fixed in its ordering yet would want to see all the details updating.
There's a tendency in File Explorers and other apps generally to make everything live-sorted and in my experience live-sorting in most apps is a low-frequency scenario (typically where you are watching updated items appear at the top), with the old method of static lists (with easy manual refresh) being far preferable, and in many scenarios live sorting is truly a nightmare. Currently in File Explorer you unzip a file and the files go absolutely everywhere - my productivity in File Explorer plummeted as soon as I moved from XP just due to the unwanted live sorting. Similar issues with history in Firefox where as soon as you click through history items to find things they all jump away and rearrange, making it impossible to use. If you have files sorted by date and want to work down them and update them, again you don't want them jumping around in position but it's good to have the display update the meta info.
In general, whenever in a task working methodically through a set of files, my impression is you want them static for the duration of the methodical task, with new items appearing at the end of the list, just as XP used to do. Unzip a file, and the result is all bunched together at the end. Update file names whilst sorted by name or update content whilst sorted by date, and they all stay nicely in the same place.
Everything of course has use cases for both live sorting and static so I am thinking it would be good to have an easy toggle between the two which freezes the list order (rather than the index), but allows the display of the file details to update, and preferably can put new files at the end; obviously files that are deleted (rather than simply going out of the search criterion) would be allowed to disappear...
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Re: Index - Pause Updates : renaming, and other thoughts

Post by void »

I will consider a search option and a menu item to prevent new results. (current results would still be live)
Thank you for the suggestion.

Everything results are always sorted.

Consider sorting by Index -> Date Recently Changed
(Please make sure Tools -> Options -> Indexes -> Index recent changes is enabled)
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