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LaunchBar Commander / LaunchBar Commander: Problem Using Drag/Drop to Create Nodes

« on: September 05, 2023, 09:44 AM »

I'm configuring a new Windows 11 Pro PC for my use and I'm trying to setup LaunchBar Commander on it. I've installed LBC v1.160.02 and opened up my .mcf file from my old system on it and that worked fine. However, when I try to drag a shortcut from the Start Menu or the desktop onto LBC, the pointer just shows a "not allowed" symbol (red circle w/diagonal slash).

I'm logged on as a user who is a member of Local Administrators.

This functionality works fine on my old PC which is also Windows 11 Pro. I've compared the LBC options on both systems and they match.

Any suggestions on what I need to do to fix this?

Thanks.

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Post New Requests Here / File Finding Utility

« on: September 03, 2010, 03:39 PM »

I've been looking for a file finding utility but can't find one that fits our needs.

We're a manufacturing company so we have lots of documents; CAD files, Quality Instructions, Invoices, POs, etc. Over time we've migrated everything to PDF files with meaningful names. They are stored in hierarchical subdirectories so you can manually drill down to what you are looking for but you might have to go through 6 - 7 levels.

We've been using a utility that I like a lot; Index Your Files. It creates indexes of your files so searching on a name or part of name is extremely fast. But like so many other file utilities, they are aimed at individuals. I've got 40 or so users and I've setup each one with Index Your Files. Each copy has to update it's own databases a couple of times a day creating a lot of duplicated load on the network.

I'd like a utility that comes in two parts. I'd like one part to an administrative and index building utility that would create all indexes and then update them on a schedule. The other part would be a searching-only utility that used the indexes built by the admin utility. The only configuration you would have in the search utility would be to select the indexes you're interested in searching.

I've tried Locate32 but couldn't get it to work right and documentation is sketchy.

Any suggestions? After all the looking I've done at existing utilities, I would think the two part model would be a great innovation because it would be applicable to individuals as well as multi-users scenarios.

Thanks.