by Barry4679 » Tue Jul 13, 2021 10:42 am
SeigneurAo wrote: ↑Tue Jul 13, 2021 9:03 am
Thanks a LOT for your answer. I'm a bit puzzled as WHY this worked, but it did work, so again, thank you.
I'm interested in understanding more, though, both what this "show all subnodes" does really and how the default design could help with browsing through my library without needing it (aka the long answer). I have fiddled a bit with the option, checking and unchecking it, but I fail to see what it does exactly.
SeigneurAo wrote: ↑Tue Jul 13, 2021 9:03 am
In MM5, it opens a search box on the top, directly after the current path I'm in, and seems to be looking for what I'm typing in the current directory, which is obviously no help at all.
I have just noticed that you probably were in the Folders node. Yes?
That affects my answer somewhat.
A search in Folders mode is not searching your MM database. It is searching your disk drive.
My comments referred to searching the MM database ... ie. when you are in something like the Music Node. ... the database is optimised for a AllText searches.
An AllText search is the Folders node is slow ... just like Windows File Explorer is slow, when you ask it to search for things, without navigating to it yourself using the Folder tree.
I don't think that the default MM5 setting works well in the Folders node yet. .. They did say whether they were going to do something about that, but I have forgotten the details atm.
To answer you question: What the default setting of the option does is save time and resources by omitting population of all the sub-nodes in the database nodes, like Music.
- ie. nothing in the album, artist, etc sub-nodes in the left hand Media Tree.
- a consequence of this it that there now no vertical list to scroll into.
- in MM5 this is compensated for, with gains, not losses IMO
But at the moment this adversely affects the Folders node.
I could go into details about how MM5 helps to avoid long vertical lists in the database nodes, but is late here.
Ask again if you want more.
[quote=SeigneurAo post_id=484226 time=1626184987 user_id=69861]
Thanks a LOT for your answer. I'm a bit puzzled as WHY this worked, but it did work, so again, thank you.
I'm interested in understanding more, though, both what this "show all subnodes" does really and how the default design could help with browsing through my library without needing it (aka the long answer). I have fiddled a bit with the option, checking and unchecking it, but I fail to see what it does exactly.
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[quote=SeigneurAo post_id=484226 time=1626184987 user_id=69861]
In MM5, it opens a search box on the top, directly after the current path I'm in, and seems to be looking for what I'm typing in the current directory, which is obviously no help at all.
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I have just noticed that you probably were in the Folders node. Yes?
That affects my answer somewhat.
A search in Folders mode is not searching your MM database. It is searching your disk drive.
My comments referred to searching the MM database ... ie. when you are in something like the Music Node. ... the database is optimised for a AllText searches.
An AllText search is the Folders node is slow ... just like Windows File Explorer is slow, when you ask it to search for things, without navigating to it yourself using the Folder tree.
I don't think that the default MM5 setting works well in the Folders node yet. .. They did say whether they were going to do something about that, but I have forgotten the details atm.
To answer you question: What the default setting of the option does is save time and resources by omitting population of all the sub-nodes in the database nodes, like Music.
[list]ie. nothing in the album, artist, etc sub-nodes in the left hand Media Tree.[/list]
[list]a consequence of this it that there now no vertical list to scroll into.[/list]
[list]in MM5 this is compensated for, with gains, not losses IMO [/list]
But at the moment this adversely affects the Folders node.
I could go into details about how MM5 helps to avoid long vertical lists in the database nodes, but is late here.
Ask again if you want more.