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My "Start" search shows files that have no relation to what I type.
Using "DOS" dir filename*.* /s I find my file in the active folder. How do I use Win7 Search to find a file? Yes, yes, I've googled it to no avail. |
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On 17 Jun 2018, masonc wrote in
alt.windows7.general: My "Start" search shows files that have no relation to what I type. Using "DOS" dir filename*.* /s I find my file in the active folder. How do I use Win7 Search to find a file? Yes, yes, I've googled it to no avail. Windows 7 will only search where it's been told to search, which by default is not the entire hard disk. Check Control Panel | Indexing Options to see if it's keeping track of where you intend to search. Or better yet, use a 3rd-party search tool like Everything and/or Agent Ransack. DOS syntax will not work in Windows Search. |
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Nil wrote:
On 17 Jun 2018, masonc wrote in alt.windows7.general: My "Start" search shows files that have no relation to what I type. Using "DOS" dir filename*.* /s I find my file in the active folder. How do I use Win7 Search to find a file? Yes, yes, I've googled it to no avail. Windows 7 will only search where it's been told to search, which by default is not the entire hard disk. Check Control Panel | Indexing Options to see if it's keeping track of where you intend to search. Or better yet, use a 3rd-party search tool like Everything and/or Agent Ransack. DOS syntax will not work in Windows Search. https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/ https://download.mythicsoft.com/ar/8...ansack_867.exe (use older version for WinXP) ******* http://www.voidtools.com/downloads/ "Download Everything 1.4.1.895" HTH, Paul |
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On 6/17/2018 5:26 PM, Paul wrote:
Nil wrote: On 17 Jun 2018, masonc wrote in alt.windows7.general: My "Start" search shows files that have no relation to what I type. Using "DOS" dir filename*.* /s I find my file in the active folder. How do I use Win7 Search to find a file? Yes, yes, I've googled it to no avail. Windows 7 will only search where it's been told to search, which by default is not the entire hard disk. Check Control Panel | Indexing Options to see if it's keeping track of where you intend to search. Or better yet, use a 3rd-party search tool like Everything and/or Agent Ransack. DOS syntax will not work in Windows Search. https://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/ https://download.mythicsoft.com/ar/8...ansack_867.exe (use older version for WinXP) ******* http://www.voidtools.com/downloads/ "Download Everything 1.4.1.895" HTH, Paul Agent Ransack is good for searching within files for specific contents. Everything is good for searching for files and folders by name. While Agent Ransack can also search for files and folders by name, Everything is much faster for that. However, Everything cannot search within files for content. Thus, I use both. -- David E. Ross http://www.rossde.com/ Attorney-General Sessions claims the bible favors imprisoning illegal aliens. However, God repeatedly commanded us to welcome the stranger in our land. For example, see the following: Exodus 22:20 at http://bible.ort.org/books/pentd2.asp?ACTION=displaypage&BOOK=2&CHAPTER=22#P2 131 Exodus 23:9 at http://bible.ort.org/books/pentd2.asp?ACTION=displaypage&BOOK=2&CHAPTER=23#P2 151 Deuteronomy 10:19 at http://bible.ort.org/books/pentd2.asp?ACTION=displaypage&BOOK=5&CHAPTER=10#P5 200 |
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David E. Ross wrote:
Agent Ransack is good for searching within files for specific contents. Everything is good for searching for files and folders by name. While Agent Ransack can also search for files and folders by name, Everything is much faster for that. However, Everything cannot search within files for content. Thus, I use both. Search Everything is faster because, like Windows Indexing Service, it runs its own indexer in the background. That means it has a ready-made cache to do its searches and only has to do incremental adds to its database for changes in files or folders. Everything is faster than FileLocator (aka Agent Ransack) when you are doing a single search. FileLocator (aka Agent Ransack) does not incorporate a background indexing service to update a database. Instead it has to do a raw scan of the device from scratch; however, it does build a temporary cache from that initial scan. The first scan is slow because there is no cache or database. The second and subsequent searches (within THAT instance of FileLocator) are just as fast as Search Everything since those searches get to use the cache that was built in the first scan. When you exit FileLocator, you lose the cache (no option to keep it around for the next use of FileLocator). If you don't mind having a constant memory and CPU footprint for a background indexing service and you do NOT need to look for content within the files, Search Everything is a good choice. If you don't want to waste resources on background processes because you seldomly search (you're highly organized in your folder hierarchy or you usually search for more than one file/folder), or you might sometimes need to find which file has some string within it, then FileLocator is more a good choice. I use both. I have plenty of system RAM and my OS+app drive is an SSD. For file/folder name-only searches, I use Everything; however, I've had to modify its configuration to include more than its install-time set of default folders that it indexes. Both let me use regex to more accurately target the files/folders that I want to find. If I want to search within the files, Everything is a fail, so I use FileLocator. |
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On 17 Jun 2018, "David E. Ross" wrote in
alt.windows7.general: Agent Ransack is good for searching within files for specific contents. Everything is good for searching for files and folders by name. While Agent Ransack can also search for files and folders by name, Everything is much faster for that. However, Everything cannot search within files for content. Thus, I use both. 99% of my searches are for file name. I almost always know what to expect within the file. I have Agent Ransack in stalled, but I can't recall the last time I actually used it. OTOH, I use Everything several times a day. For me, it's essential. |
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On Sun, 17 Jun 2018 16:34:12 -0700, masonc
wrote: My "Start" search shows files that have no relation to what I type. Using "DOS" dir filename*.* /s I find my file in the active folder. How do I use Win7 Search to find a file? Yes, yes, I've googled it to no avail. I've been using xSearch for years. It's free. http://www.easexp.com/xsearch/ DC |
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? hmm
On 6/17/2018 7:10 PM, Nil scribbled: On 17 Jun 2018, "David E. wrote in alt.windows7.general: Agent Ransack is good for searching within files for specific contents. Everything is good for searching for files and folders by name. While Agent Ransack can also search for files and folders by name, Everything is much faster for that. However, Everything cannot search within files for content. Thus, I use both. 99% of my searches are for file name. I almost always know what to expect within the file. I have Agent Ransack in stalled, but I can't recall the last time I actually used it. OTOH, I use Everything several times a day. For me, it's essential. |
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On 01 Jul 2018, tesla sTinker
wrote in alt.windows7.general: ? hmm !Wha! On 6/17/2018 7:10 PM, Nil scribbled: On 17 Jun 2018, "David E. wrote in alt.windows7.general: Agent Ransack is good for searching within files for specific contents. Everything is good for searching for files and folders by name. While Agent Ransack can also search for files and folders by name, Everything is much faster for that. However, Everything cannot search within files for content. Thus, I use both. 99% of my searches are for file name. I almost always know what to expect within the file. I have Agent Ransack in stalled, but I can't recall the last time I actually used it. OTOH, I use Everything several times a day. For me, it's essential. |
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