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I'm the author of Zazu, I'm happy to answer any questions. Ask away!

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On Win 10 FHD the UI is tiny - looks like a scaling issue. Also uninstall is broken.

I bought the original Alfred v1 Powerpack.

But, they recently made that unavailable for download and want me to buy v3... Which I don't need.

So I've been awaiting an alternative.

So thanks for this ! I'm excited to try it out.

You can still try to download v2 here, based on wildcard naming convention.

https://cachefly.alfredapp.com/Alfred_2.8.7_442.dmg

P.S.: not sure about license compatibility of v1 -> v2.

Awesome to hear! I hope this works well for you! [:

Alfred piggybacks on spotlight's metadata index for finding a file, how does the file finder for this work?

This looks great. I've been debating on building my own tool for this. I'll try and contribute some code to this.

Yes, since the first file finder needed to be cross platform I create a cache in the plugin, but a mac specific one would be great! :D

Technically it spins up another process and recursively goes through a whitelisted set of directories. It caches just the app locations, not all the files.

Hmmm alright interesting. I'll look at this when I get off work. Thank you for the reply.

The homepage says

  brew cask install zazu

should work to install via Homebrew, but it doesn't.

    $ brew update && brew cask install zazu

Works for me...

    $ brew --version
    Homebrew 1.1.6
    Homebrew/homebrew-core (git revision e517; last commit 2017-01-05)

How does this compare to GNOME Do?

How does the file search on Win10 compare to native file search?

It was implemented in Node and I've not benchmarked it on Windows, but it's probably not as fast. [:

How do you search files in a cross platform way?

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