It seems that from another post, larger files are more quickly handled than smaller? (The file open/close operations are mostly an issue for indexing, not actual searching?)
Does the depth of severally-branched branches from the trunk of the tree (thrice or more) have a relatively negative impact vs for an un-twigged branch for the textbase/docbase? (Do subdocuments ‘count’ as branches?)
Does a tree trunk’s main branching (25+) have a relatively negative impact vs none beyond DRAFT and RESEARCH?
(Overall, ~ 25k files in a 430 MB project.)
Windows 10 64b; i7 7700, 2T main storage, 32G RAM;
Scrivener 1.9.16
Scrivener is not intended to be a dedicated database program. If you are asking these kinds of questions, your use case is probably outside of Scrivener’s intended scope.
Scrivener creates a separate search index as you work, and searches that index rather than crawling the Binder directly. So the exact structure of the Binder is less relevant than the overall number of words in the project.
Thank you kewms – My very slow response here is mostly due my awaiting the Win 3.x Scrivener.
I promise this is my last post (to you-ish) on this.
Will/is the indexing and/or lookup more efficient in broad brush strokes were the text in one large document or in my case, say, 20,000? (I do understand the organizational advantage of having several focused texts instead.)
Serendipity.
Searching for Augustinus’ writings, I’d like to discover unsuspected secular considerations of jus bellum and national traitors; searching for Grotius on international law, encounter the foundations of common law, the Roman ius gentium, and Roman Catholic Natural Law.
Search, find, link. (Naturally, once found, re-referencing will often be quicker by labels and keywords.)
Functionally, it is a matter of discovering (ir)relevant references as quickly as possible for the digressive way I write (Herodotean).
I know I have a lot of files (recounted, 25k docs), ranging in size from maybe 15 bytes to Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws, ~ 272KB (takes 4-5 seconds to load).
One the one hand, I could separate files like Laws into smaller files; on the other, combine epigrams.
The 3rd of course, fewer files. (Or is it data?)
references as quickly as possible for the digressive way I write (Herodotean).