Gripe: Initial One-Time Index for Google Desktop

Takes way to long and isn't sensitive to activity

[MovingOnUp]

I know I have a lot of stuff to index (100,000 items and counting), but it's absolutely ridiculous that Google Desktop has been chugging along for over 30 hours now with this initial one-time index. There has to be a more efficient way.

My other gripe is that it's not very sensitive to activity. It's only supposed to index if the computer has been idle for at least 5 minutes. It doesn't also follow that. It's extremely obvious when it's running, as the hard drive runs continually and the computer drags to a halt.

I can already see that it's going to be very useful once it's done with the initial index, however. I have well over 100,000 emails, and Outlook is just awful when it comes to searching. It can take 5-10 minutes or more to find stuff. With Google Desktop, it's a fraction of a second.

[MovingOnUp]

The one-time index has finished. Almost 225,000 items, over 200,000 of which are emails. It took almost 72 hours. Glad that's done!

Google will be accomplishing its main objective with this. I will likely be switching from doing searches primarily with Yahoo to Google just because of the convenience of searching my own items.

[Never_again]

over 200,000 of which are emails.

Wow, why would you want to keep over 200,000 old emails? Google Desktop was not designed to handle this type of load. Seems to me that you need to establish some ground rules on what emails you will keep and which you will archive offline.