Whoever recommended Agent Ransack for file searching, thanks

I know it was recommended, but I can't find the thread. As I recall,
it was in the Windows 7 group, but I would use it in 8 as well.

It's working great so far. Love being able to find stuff.

The only momentary annoyance was being reminded that it's not for
business use, but that's nothing.






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Just thanks, not for discussion. I don't sell anything.

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John Doe typed:
I know it was recommended, but I can't find the thread. As I recall,
it was in the Windows 7 group, but I would use it in 8 as well.

It's working great so far. Love being able to find stuff.

The only momentary annoyance was being reminded that it's not for
business use, but that's nothing.

Yup, it is one great program for sure. ;-)

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Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz - 4GB - Windows XP SP2

FileLocator Lite 2014 is also a great program.
http://www.mythicsoft.com/filelocatorlite

"John Doe" wrote...
I know it was recommended, but I can't find the thread. As I recall,
it was in the Windows 7 group, but I would use it in 8 as well.

It's working great so far. Love being able to find stuff.

The only momentary annoyance was being reminded that it's not for
business use, but that's nothing.






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Just thanks, not for discussion. I don't sell anything.

In article , lid says...

I know it was recommended, but I can't find the thread. As I recall,
it was in the Windows 7 group, but I would use it in 8 as well.

It's working great so far. Love being able to find stuff.

The only momentary annoyance was being reminded that it's not for
business use, but that's nothing.
Hi


http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack says :
....
Agent Ransack is a free 'lite' version of FileLocator Pro. It is free
for both personal and commercial use.
....

I'm using it since many years and I'm happy with it.

Regards,
Reinhard

And FileLocator Lite is a rebranding of Agent Ransack
for corporate environments. It has exactly the same
functionality but with a different name and logo.

wrote...

Hi

http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack says :
...
Agent Ransack is a free 'lite' version of FileLocator Pro. It is free
for both personal and commercial use.
...

I'm using it since many years and I'm happy with it.

Regards,
Reinhard

On 2/28/2014 at 4:01:39 AM John Doe wrote:

I know it was recommended, but I can't find the thread. As I recall,
it was in the Windows 7 group, but I would use it in 8 as well.

It's working great so far. Love being able to find stuff.

The only momentary annoyance was being reminded that it's not for
business use, but that's nothing.

....but what about a freeware to search the _content_ of files?
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tb

| ...but what about a freeware to search the _content_ of files?

Agent Ransack does that. You can search for text
within a file. I started using it because with XP the
search was undependable and no longer able to look
inside CAB files. (CABs have the content file list stored
as plain text, so using Agent Ransack is an easy way
to look for files among multiple CABs.)

What else do you want to look for? If you need
some sort of metadata then getting at it would
depend on the file type.

On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 22:47:34 +0000 (UTC), "tb"
wrote:

On 2/28/2014 at 4:01:39 AM John Doe wrote:

I know it was recommended, but I can't find the thread. As I recall,
it was in the Windows 7 group, but I would use it in 8 as well.

It's working great so far. Love being able to find stuff.

The only momentary annoyance was being reminded that it's not for
business use, but that's nothing.

...but what about a freeware to search the _content_ of files?


Agent Ransack *does* search for file content.

On 2/28/2014 at 4:59:47 PM Mayayana wrote:

Agent Ransack does that. You can search for text
within a file. I started using it because with XP the
search was undependable and no longer able to look
inside CAB files. (CABs have the content file list stored
as plain text, so using Agent Ransack is an easy way
to look for files among multiple CABs.)

What else do you want to look for? If you need
some sort of metadata then getting at it would
depend on the file type.

I am looking for a free utility that also searches the contents of
Microsoft Office files (Outlook emails, Excel spreadsheet, Word
files...)

I don't think that the free Agent Ransack utility does that:
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/features

I could be wrong, of course...
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tb

On 3/04/2014, tb posted:
On 2/28/2014 at 4:59:47 PM Mayayana wrote:

Agent Ransack does that. You can search for text
within a file. I started using it because with XP the
search was undependable and no longer able to look
inside CAB files. (CABs have the content file list stored
as plain text, so using Agent Ransack is an easy way
to look for files among multiple CABs.)

What else do you want to look for? If you need
some sort of metadata then getting at it would
depend on the file type.

I am looking for a free utility that also searches the contents of
Microsoft Office files (Outlook emails, Excel spreadsheet, Word
files...)

I don't think that the free Agent Ransack utility does that:
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/features

I could be wrong, of course...

You are wrong, at least for xls and doc files.

I just used Agent Ransack to search for specific text in both of those
file types and found it. Quickly.

I have no Outlook e-mails to test.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

| I am looking for a free utility that also searches the contents of
| Microsoft Office files (Outlook emails, Excel spreadsheet, Word
| files...)
|
| I don't think that the free Agent Ransack utility does that:
| http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/features
|

It will search for text in any file, but the text has to
be there. For instance, a Word .doc will have text in
the file. Likewise, a .JPG could have tags that are
present as text. But a .docx is actually a ZIP file with a
number of other files inside. I doubt AR will find that text.
I doubt any program will do that unless it's specifically
designed for a given file type. To find text inside a .docx
would require knowledge of the file structure. The contents
are compressed, so the text is not there in the actual
bytes of the .docx.

On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 23:54:22 +0000 (UTC), "tb"
wrote:


I am looking for a free utility that also searches the contents of
Microsoft Office files (Outlook emails, Excel spreadsheet, Word
files...)

I don't think that the free Agent Ransack utility does that:
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/features

I could be wrong, of course...



I'm afraid you are wrong. It does. And since it's free, why not
download and try it yourself.

On 3/5/2014 at 9:20:42 AM Ken Blake wrote:

On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 23:54:22 +0000 (UTC), "tb"
wrote:


I am looking for a free utility that also searches the contents of
Microsoft Office files (Outlook emails, Excel spreadsheet, Word
files...)

I don't think that the free Agent Ransack utility does that:
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/features

I could be wrong, of course...



I'm afraid you are wrong. It does. And since it's free, why not
download and try it yourself.

Well I downloaded and installed Agent Ransack 2014 Build 819 and did
some tests.

It did find text in Excel files but did not in Outlook messages. (I am
using Office 2007.) I made sure that the whole C:\ drive and
subdirectories were serached and, yes, my Outlook messages are stored
on the C:\ drive.

Is there some setting that I am missing for successful Outlook searches?
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tb

On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 21:37:31 +0000 (UTC), "tb"
wrote:

On 3/5/2014 at 9:20:42 AM Ken Blake wrote:

On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 23:54:22 +0000 (UTC), "tb"
wrote:


I am looking for a free utility that also searches the contents of
Microsoft Office files (Outlook emails, Excel spreadsheet, Word
files...)

I don't think that the free Agent Ransack utility does that:
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/features

I could be wrong, of course...



I'm afraid you are wrong. It does. And since it's free, why not
download and try it yourself.

Well I downloaded and installed Agent Ransack 2014 Build 819 and did
some tests.

It did find text in Excel files but did not in Outlook messages. (I am
using Office 2007.) I made sure that the whole C:\ drive and
subdirectories were serached and, yes, my Outlook messages are stored
on the C:\ drive.

Is there some setting that I am missing for successful Outlook searches?


Sorry, I did a test before I wrote the above, and only tested for
Excel. I didn't bother with Outlook, and it now appears that I was
wrong.

No, there's no setting I know of.

On 3/6/2014 at 3:47:30 PM Ken Blake wrote:

On Thu, 6 Mar 2014 21:37:31 +0000 (UTC), "tb"
wrote:

On 3/5/2014 at 9:20:42 AM Ken Blake wrote:

On Tue, 4 Mar 2014 23:54:22 +0000 (UTC), "tb"
wrote:


I am looking for a free utility that also searches the contents
of Microsoft Office files (Outlook emails, Excel spreadsheet,
Word files...)

I don't think that the free Agent Ransack utility does that:
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/features

I could be wrong, of course...



I'm afraid you are wrong. It does. And since it's free, why not
download and try it yourself.

Well I downloaded and installed Agent Ransack 2014 Build 819 and did
some tests.

It did find text in Excel files but did not in Outlook messages.
(I am using Office 2007.) I made sure that the whole C:\ drive and
subdirectories were serached and, yes, my Outlook messages are
stored on the C:\ drive.

Is there some setting that I am missing for successful Outlook
searches?


Sorry, I did a test before I wrote the above, and only tested for
Excel. I didn't bother with Outlook, and it now appears that I was
wrong.

No, there's no setting I know of.

Anybody knows of a freeware utility that can search for text in Outlook
2007 messages?
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tb