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I have 2 big folders "Projects" and "Studies" with lots of SVN and some GIT projects inside. I had to disable indexing for them entirely, because, due to the sheer amount of files in .svn and .git folders, the quick search in the Start Menu worked very slowly, rendering it useless (and I really use that feature).
The problem is, that since these folders are explicitly excluded from indexing not even regular "slow" file searching works in them and this is quite annoying. And I really need the ability to search my project folders.
Manually excluding each .svn and .git folder could be a solution, but it would be unmaintainable, because there's really many of them.
Can you guys suggest anything? Thanks in advance.
1Looking through my default values in that key, I see that INCLUDE=0x00000000, and URL can include * as wildcards, for example URL=file:///C:\Users*\AppData\Local\Temp* (excluding all user's Temp files), and another as URL=file:///\System Volume Information* (so it can exclude SystemVolumeInformation from any drive or directory). So probably adding a new WorkingSetRules by copying from one of those rules, but setting URL=file:///.svn* should do the trick. You probably also need to update WorkingSetRules\ItemCount to include your new rules. – PeterCJ – 2015-11-23T19:36:12.590
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Thanks man, it actually worked. The search is still quite slow though. I wonder how guys who made Everything achieve so unbelievable indexing and searching speeds. It indexed my whole computer in a matter of 2-3 minutes and it searches it in real time as I type - absolutely unmatched by the native Windows search. It's a pity that you can't hook a custom search engine to the Windows native search interface.
– KotBehemot – 2015-11-24T14:07:05.893