Windows grep
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It is excellent once it has properly indexed your hard disk. But the index file can grow to be quite large.
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The most frustrating feature of the built in search is that for some idiotic reason it searches through compressed files and the only way to stop it from doing that is to remove the compressed folders support from the operating system.
John
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Does anyone know a nice tool that can do search for files on your hard disk? (As you may know the built in search feature in XP is unrealiable)
ed welch wrote:
(As you may know the built in search feature in XP is unrealiable)
How so?
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Does anyone know a nice tool that can do search for files on your hard disk? (As you may know the built in search feature in XP is unrealiable)
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ed welch wrote:
I tried it, but it seems like it only searches your web history.
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ed welch wrote:
(As you may know the built in search feature in XP is unrealiable)
How so?
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ed welch wrote:
(As you may know the built in search feature in XP is unrealiable)
How so?
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I have no concrete example either but I have seen it fail to find text many times on searching code. This happens not only on my machine but (I am also the admin) I get user complaints as well about that. Maybe this only happens when indexing is off.
John
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Sometimes it doesn't find files that are there. Not sure exactly why it fails, but it seems to happen more often for recently added files. Also very slow because it searches through the zip files X|
ed welch wrote:
Also very slow because it searches through the zip files
That is very annoying because I have thousands of zip files and a lot of times the zip files are on the same tree as what I am searching for.
John
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Sometimes it doesn't find files that are there. Not sure exactly why it fails, but it seems to happen more often for recently added files. Also very slow because it searches through the zip files X|
ed welch wrote:
Also very slow because it searches through the zip files
This can easily be turned off.
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I have no concrete example either but I have seen it fail to find text many times on searching code. This happens not only on my machine but (I am also the admin) I get user complaints as well about that. Maybe this only happens when indexing is off.
John
Is this with Windows XP? If so, then verify something. Run ciadv.msc. From the Action menu, click Propeties. Is the "Index files with unknown extensions" checkbox checked?
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ed welch wrote:
Also very slow because it searches through the zip files
This can easily be turned off.
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DavidCrow wrote:
This can easily be turned off.
Agreed but then you loose the ability to examine the contents of a zip file from within explorer itself.
John
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Is this with Windows XP? If so, then verify something. Run ciadv.msc. From the Action menu, click Propeties. Is the "Index files with unknown extensions" checkbox checked?
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Yes it is 32 bit XP.
DavidCrow wrote:
Is the "Index files with unknown extensions" checkbox checked?
No. It is not checked.
John
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Does anyone know a nice tool that can do search for files on your hard disk? (As you may know the built in search feature in XP is unrealiable)
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You could try Agent Ransack[^] which is the free version of File Locator Pro. It offers regular expressions for file names and for text in files as well as size and modification date settings.
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ed welch wrote:
Also very slow because it searches through the zip files
This can easily be turned off.
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"To have a respect for ourselves guides our morals; to have deference for others governs our manners." - Laurence Sterne
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DavidCrow wrote:
This can easily be turned off.
How? I don't see anything in folder options
Run the following: regsvr32 /u c:\windows\system32\zipfldr.dll
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Does anyone know a nice tool that can do search for files on your hard disk? (As you may know the built in search feature in XP is unrealiable)
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