Hello VanguardLH,

The files are AFAIK not special, nor have any special file-attributes
attribites set.

The fix is to get a better search tool.

I found a different, easier kind of fix: I copied, in the registry, the
"PersistentHandler" key from the .txt entry to the new .src one, and all
seems to be well again.

Thanks for your suggestion though.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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JJ wrote:

R.Wieser wrote:

I've got anumber of files with the extension .src. The problem is
that searching the folder for its specific filetype together with a
certain piece of text in it it does not show any results ...
Renaming the extension to .txt and than searching does show the
correct files though.

The built in file search to search by file content sucks. It doesn't
actually search all files even though it's told to search all files
(wildcard "*.*"), and in hidden and system files via advanced search.

And as a result of the "filtered" search available in Windows XP (plus
Microsoft's XP search is coded to specifically not show some "special"
files), you'll want a better search utility, like:

FileLocator Lite (aka File Ransack)
http://www.mythicsoft.com/page.aspx?...lite&page=home

The fix is to get a better search tool.