Flushed Cache

I have discovered a weakness in the Google Desktop Search software: it remembers everything. This can be a good thing ("Where did I just save important_report.doc?") as well as a bad thing ("I could have sworn I'd erased that ransom note."). For me, it's sort of a middle-ground issue. Sometimes it nice to be able to say "Hey, Google Desktop, show me all images with the filename 'dilbert' in them somewhere." The biggest problem I have with Google Desktop, other than it trying to index files I'm still in the process of editing, is that it never follows where my files have gone after I've moved them.

And believe me, I'm a mover. I'll save absolutely everything in the whole wide world to my Desktop, and if I feel like it, resort it later into C:\Downloads or E:\Music\MP3s, or perhaps even "C:\Documents and Settings\toby\My Documents\iTunes\iTunes Music". So when I want to find a file, Google Desktop can't always tell me where it is, but it can usually tell me where it used to be.

And the only way Google suggests to remove items from the cache? Manually. I laugh uproariously at that. So instead, I just uninstalled Google Desktop, trashed the cache, and reinstalled it. It indexed my drive overnight and now I'm in that happy period of time between when I've flushed the Google Desktop cache and when it becomes woefully out-of-date again.