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Hi, I'm the author of this little piece of software.

> Also this is anbandoned apparently, which makes me extra sad, because it lacks few crucial features like:

PersonalIy I wouldn't call it abandoned. I'm still working on it — not as often as I'd like to, but I'm still making progress towards the next release. Though it's still months away from being released.

> - being able to just remove a file from the index if you delete it from the app directly (insted it shows a window how it "soon" gonna be implemented)

That feature is already implemented, but there are no official builds with it yet, because other parts of the software haven't been updated after the rewrite of the database engine (e.g. loading/saving the database file is broken at the moment). Once the old feature set is working again, I'll publish the first official dev builds of the 0.3 release.

> while i understand that indexing service is more complex job - at least caching the index would be nice, because right now when i start the app i have to wait for it to index everything again, but usually i search for files that exists for a long time, not these that was created between my fsearch uses

This is already supported and part of the stable releases. The index is cached and loaded upon application start, so you can search right away, even while the new index is being built. You can also disable auto index updates when the application is launched, if you prefer manual or scheduled index update instead. Or do you mean something else?



What's the best way to help you with this project?


Most definitely code and documentation contributions and to a degree donations — although I clearly prefer the former, simply because it keeps me engaged the most by talking with others about this project, getting new ideas, etc.

But I really welcome any sort of contribution. For example there's also things like improving the main interface language (English isn't my first language, so there's likely room for improvement there), helping with support questions and bug reports, artwork, ...




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