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Old March 16th 19, 06:38 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mayayana
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Default is "Everything" doing some mining?

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote

| They're different purposes: Everything works on filenames, Agent Ransack
| on file contents.

I got curious and checked out their FAQ. They say it
can search content but that the default usage is really
something like Windows Explorer with filtering. It displays
everything on the system, then filters as you type.

It seems to record file changes in the background,
then updates its database every time it's run. It also
says you can adjust settings to make it simpler. If
you only need names and not file sizes, dates, etc then
you can skip that.

The overall design doesn't make much sense to me,
but to be honest, I've mainly avoided it because 1) Agent
Ransack is so good and 2) the name "Everything" is just to
ridiculous and confusing.


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