Quick question. If you choose get info on a drive or a folder it says Content Index and a button that lets you index it now. What exactly is the content index. Should I index it? Thanks.
Indexing allows you to search files by their content.
Say you wanted to search for all the papers you wrote that contained the phrase "dynamic earth". If you index a folder of documents, you can perform such a search on those documents.
Indexing is a very intensive process. That's why it is a feature that is not enabled by default. You have to manually index directories.
I don't use this feature and I don't know many people that do. It could be useful for some people, but I simply don't have a use for it. For someone that keeps hundreds or thousands of documents titled by numbers or some other abstract scheme, I can see indexing as an exceedingly useful and necessary feature.
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Say you wanted to search for all the papers you wrote that contained the phrase "dynamic earth". If you index a folder of documents, you can perform such a search on those documents.
Indexing is a very intensive process. That's why it is a feature that is not enabled by default. You have to manually index directories.
I don't use this feature and I don't know many people that do. It could be useful for some people, but I simply don't have a use for it. For someone that keeps hundreds or thousands of documents titled by numbers or some other abstract scheme, I can see indexing as an exceedingly useful and necessary feature.