> There is currently obviously a snooze() in Tracker that makes it so > slow (IIRC). Queries from the Terminal are magnitudes faster. > The speed problem Joachim mentioned stems from 1000s of results, not > 10000s of mails total. And that will continue to be a problem. but remember query in Terminal doesn't have to lookup the mimetype, get the icon, ... maybe even not have to stat the inode since it gets the dirent. François.