Instant file search for Windows: a desktop app in the spirit of Everything, written in Rust. It indexes every file and folder on your fixed drives and filters millions of entries as you type.
- Searches all drives at once, with results sortable by name, path, size and date.
- NTFS MFT indexing: with ⚡ Fast NTFS indexing on, a small elevated helper reads each drive's master file table directly, which indexes a drive in seconds; the window itself never needs administrator rights. Otherwise it uses a parallel folder scan.
- Instant startup: indexes are cached on disk and refreshed in the background.
- Everything-style queries:
ext:pdf,size:>100mb,dm:today,folder:src, wildcards,!not,a|b, path terms andregex:. - Preview and edit: text with an inline editor (Ctrl+S to save; encoding and line endings kept), images, hex dumps and folder listings.
- Shell actions: open, show in Explorer, Properties, copy path and external editor.
- Quick search bar: press Alt+Space anywhere for a small launcher-style search box that ranks programs and close matches first. FileCraft stays in the notification area when its window is closed.
Measured on a machine with 7 drives and 13 million files, without admin rights:
| Folder scan of a 4.2 M-entry SSD | 18.7 s |
| Load that drive from cache | 0.35 s |
| Typical search | 7–90 ms |
| All 13 M entries, unfiltered | 35 ms |
| Memory use | ~1.6 GB |
cargo build --release
.\target\release\FileCraft.exeClick ⚡ Fast NTFS indexing in the status bar for MFT indexing (one UAC prompt for the helper).
cargo test # unit tests
$env:FILECRAFT_BENCH_ROOT = "D:\"; cargo test --release bench_real_drive -- --ignored --nocapture- User guide: window, search syntax, editing, shortcuts, settings
- Architecture: index layout, MFT reader, search engine
- Changelog
Changes go through pull requests: create a branch, push it and open a PR against main. Every
PR needs one approving review before it can be merged.
CI (.github/workflows/ci.yml) builds, lints (clippy -D warnings)
and tests on Windows in both the debug and release profiles, and checks dependencies with
cargo deny check (policy in deny.toml) and cargo audit. It also runs weekly, so
new advisories show up between pull requests. Third-party actions are pinned to commit SHAs, and
both they and the crates in Cargo.lock are kept current by Dependabot. Run the same checks
locally before pushing:
cargo clippy --locked --all-targets -- -D warnings
cargo test --locked
cargo deny checkFileCraft is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
FileCraft is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the LICENSE file for details.