Export search results from remote server kind of useless

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Chiefmas
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Export search results from remote server kind of useless

Post by Chiefmas »

Exporting search results that are from an ETP server can be kind of useless, since it's bound by the same issue you have if you try to select files when the file list is greater than what the window is displaying. The export is aware how many entries there are, but you only get populated data for whatever is on screen. This is kind of useless if the entire result set doesn't fit on screen. I can understand why the active display window works that way, but if the user is explicitly asking for an export, they clearly want the entire data set, and you should really have the client just return the entire matching set, rather than write out a bunch of zero-length string values.

This is client version 1.4.1.1026
void
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Re: Export search results from remote server kind of useless

Post by void »

It's a limitation with ETP.

ETP only has a small window of results.



I will consider gathering all the results when exporting.



The Everything Server will replace ETP.
You'll be able to export all results when indexing an Everything Server.