Totally SWAG:
such tools do not walk/recurse the directory/ies, but massages the MFT directly to get fileinfo...

>thank for reply.
>the soft you pointed "V" is not instantaneous search file.
>its like all search tools i seen in visual foxpro.it consumes certain time (not negligible many minutes...waiting for result).
>its not free and this is better and light:https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/search_my_files.html
>"Everything" is better filer soft and result is instantaneous.
>I dared the same question: why VFP developers did not work this area of instant file search ? it's surprising,no.I never see a work on this domain in vfp namespace.
>i guess its doable in vfp the only one problem is to find the exact method to update the initial scanned table "online" and gives instantaneous result.
>-the vfp filer (it was an external dll to vfp) have many caveats and dont worked correctly (crashes without message).
>-scan/endscan directories consumes too time
>-last vfpx works (maybe gofish) ...also
>
>then call to database experts to solve this problem as "everything" does !