Uses over 10GB of memory making me lose work and blue screen
This has SOOOO much potential to be awesome, but after a couple of rounds with support telling me "the next update will fix it," it never happens.
I will absolutely change this review if they fix the memory issue. But right now, the memory usage climbs and climbs until it crashes my machine. I've lost work and had to restart several times (if it didn't blue screen first).
When it's running, I watch my resource monitor and the amount of memory it uses. It goes up like a gig every hour or so. Not good.
Developers, please make this issue a priority so I can update this review and tell people about how amazing this program is when it works!
Two tacos instead of one because when I restart the program, I can use it normally. But, I have to restart it so it will let go of all that memory and give me my resources back.
When the memory issue is resolved, this will be a 5-star product.
Founder Team
Leon_Curiosity
May 9, 2024
Hey Paulcola,
Thanks for the review and for sticking with us! Very sorry to hear the app isn't working for you yet. :/
We are doing our best to identify what's causing this in your case... and we'll keep on trying!
Hope to get this working for you and unlock that potential soon!
The idea is pretty nice and the app has a pleasant UI. However, this is a battery killer. On my MacBook Pro 16" I'm in trouble to even charge above 10% on certain times of the day.
I don't refund because I appreciate the idea behind it, but I'm going to uninstall and try again in couple of months.
Founder Team
Leon_Curiosity
May 9, 2024
Hi Valerio 👋
Thanks for the review and for sticking with the app! The app should only consume energy during the initial indexing, which usually takes a few days (and even then it should stop indexing if you're working on battery). After that it should go down to almost nothing.
In addition, in a recent version we added scheduling for indexing. That lets you determine when the app uses CPU:...
I so wanted this to work for me, but the performance has not been that good for me. It could be that I simply have too much stuff, I do not know.
I have had it installed and running for several days wanted to make sure that it had everything indexed, and gave it a try. I first decided to search for a clients name to see what it would find, and it found 1 email from 3 months ago. I have so many emails to that name and it only found one.
50% of my processor is utilized by the software and it is causing the fans to run at a high speed. This sytem is not a high end system with a quad core i5 and 8gb of ram, but I didn't expect it to have that much impact. Not that it matters but I did replace the hard drive with a 1tb ssd.
I love the concept, but simply didn't work for me.
Founder Team
Leon_Curiosity
May 9, 2024
Hi Dave,
Thanks for the review and and sorry to hear the app hasn't been working as expected for you! It does sound strange that it would be taking so long to index with what sounds like a powerful machine. How much data are we talking about (approximately)?
If you're still interested in getting it to work we'd be happy to do a bit of digging - just drop us an email to hello@curiosity.ai and we...
The idea behind the tool is a good one, the design is clean and it offers a lot of options. The main problem is, the tool uses a LOT, and I mean, A LOOOT of resources to work.
I already talked with support about this, still waiting for a fix. I would get it and wait until the refund period, to see if they fix the memory issue. If they fix it, it will be a good investment.
Founder Team
Leon_Curiosity
May 9, 2024
Thanks for the feedback! After initial indexing, memory usage is minimal.
During initial indexing there will be some time where the app needs a lot of memory (especially if you have a lot of data). Unfortunately here's no other way to index cloud and local sources without sending your data to the cloud.
We've been doing a lot of work to reduce memory usage during in initial indexing. 🚀 In...
Verified purchaser
Love tacos
Gets the job done. I can find all my files
Leon_Curiosity
May 9, 2024Thanks for the feedback - glad you're finding it useful! 🙌
Verified purchaser
Uses over 10GB of memory making me lose work and blue screen
This has SOOOO much potential to be awesome, but after a couple of rounds with support telling me "the next update will fix it," it never happens.
I will absolutely change this review if they fix the memory issue. But right now, the memory usage climbs and climbs until it crashes my machine. I've lost work and had to restart several times (if it didn't blue screen first).
When it's running, I watch my resource monitor and the amount of memory it uses. It goes up like a gig every hour or so. Not good.
Developers, please make this issue a priority so I can update this review and tell people about how amazing this program is when it works!
Two tacos instead of one because when I restart the program, I can use it normally. But, I have to restart it so it will let go of all that memory and give me my resources back.
When the memory issue is resolved, this will be a 5-star product.
Leon_Curiosity
May 9, 2024Hey Paulcola,
Thanks for the review and for sticking with us! Very sorry to hear the app isn't working for you yet. :/
We are doing our best to identify what's causing this in your case... and we'll keep on trying!
Hope to get this working for you and unlock that potential soon!
Verified purchaser
Nice idea, battery killer
The idea is pretty nice and the app has a pleasant UI.
However, this is a battery killer.
On my MacBook Pro 16" I'm in trouble to even charge above 10% on certain times of the day.
I don't refund because I appreciate the idea behind it, but I'm going to uninstall and try again in couple of months.
Leon_Curiosity
May 9, 2024Hi Valerio 👋
Thanks for the review and for sticking with the app! The app should only consume energy during the initial indexing, which usually takes a few days (and even then it should stop indexing if you're working on battery). After that it should go down to almost nothing.
In addition, in a recent version we added scheduling for indexing. That lets you determine when the app uses CPU:...
Verified purchaser
Great Concept - poor performance for me
I so wanted this to work for me, but the performance has not been that good for me. It could be that I simply have too much stuff, I do not know.
I have had it installed and running for several days wanted to make sure that it had everything indexed, and gave it a try. I first decided to search for a clients name to see what it would find, and it found 1 email from 3 months ago. I have so many emails to that name and it only found one.
50% of my processor is utilized by the software and it is causing the fans to run at a high speed. This sytem is not a high end system with a quad core i5 and 8gb of ram, but I didn't expect it to have that much impact. Not that it matters but I did replace the hard drive with a 1tb ssd.
I love the concept, but simply didn't work for me.
Leon_Curiosity
May 9, 2024Hi Dave,
Thanks for the review and and sorry to hear the app hasn't been working as expected for you! It does sound strange that it would be taking so long to index with what sounds like a powerful machine. How much data are we talking about (approximately)?
If you're still interested in getting it to work we'd be happy to do a bit of digging - just drop us an email to hello@curiosity.ai and we...
Verified purchaser
Nice Concept, use way to much resources
The idea behind the tool is a good one, the design is clean and it offers a lot of options. The main problem is, the tool uses a LOT, and I mean, A LOOOT of resources to work.
I already talked with support about this, still waiting for a fix. I would get it and wait until the refund period, to see if they fix the memory issue. If they fix it, it will be a good investment.
Leon_Curiosity
May 9, 2024Thanks for the feedback! After initial indexing, memory usage is minimal.
During initial indexing there will be some time where the app needs a lot of memory (especially if you have a lot of data). Unfortunately here's no other way to index cloud and local sources without sending your data to the cloud.
We've been doing a lot of work to reduce memory usage during in initial indexing. 🚀 In...