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When I use the "Find in files...." search option, and search through a really large amount of files, I don't see the searched files going by at the bottom of the search window, like I used to. I basically get no feedback that anything is happening apart from the "buzy" cursor. It's basically the same symptoms as when a program hangs, but it isn't hanging. I think this might be a bug/regression? Not important, but it would be nice if it worked again.

I also think the end report is inconsistent. If I look through the same files, with different search words, I can get:

Found 0 occurrence(s) in 7985 file(s)

but also:

Found 6 occurrence(s) in 1 file(s)

Both are somewhat correct, but either the first one should say: "in 0 files(s)", since nothing was found, or the latter should read:

Found 6 occurrence(s) in 1 file(s) out of 7985 file(s)

Extra info: I use TP 9.9.6 (64bit) Intel on Windows 11 in dark mode (tried SSD files and files on an external HD).

kikosoft2 wrote: Wed Jun 10, 2026 3:53 pma really large amount of files

If it's thousands of files in one single folder then Windows itself is the culprit - the Explorer should also take the same long time to list all files of the folder. Likewise TextPad first collects all the filenames of the folder and then searches in the content of each one - the former step is the one where TextPad has (virtually) no chance to report any progress and just waits for the system to complete that task.

kikosoft2 wrote: Wed Jun 10, 2026 3:53 pm

Found 6 occurrence(s) in 1 file(s) out of 7985 file(s)

This would indeed be the most correct display (that would also verify one didn't exclude too many file types as per filter).