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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« on: July 03, 2008, 07:51 AM »

Glad that LookDisk managed to find the remaining files at a reasonable speed 

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« on: July 02, 2008, 10:52 AM »

Hi Darwin, thanks for the welcome 

As the developer it's always a bit of a challenge to ask questions on the own software without sounding defensive (hope I wasn't). I value any honest feedback I receive as this is the only way for me to know what needs to be improved.

On the number of found files, did you check under Options - Exclusions whether Exclude hidden/system files/folders was selected? Does it make any difference if you deselect those options? (if they were selected in the first place)

On the search speed, by default LookDisk searches inside archives (zip, cab, rar etc) and that could explain why it was considerably slower. If you deselect the searches in archives (under Options), does it make a difference in terms of search speed?

Glad to hear the positive comments on the UI and duplicate file finding.

Thanks again for the additional feedback.

Cheers,
Vincenzo

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« on: July 02, 2008, 10:12 AM »

Hi Darwin, thanks a lot for all your feedback, very much appreciated!

I will notify Iconico to correct the statement about the feature limited trial-version.

LookDisk was available for a long time as Freeware (up to version 2.97) and therefore you're second statement is correct, that it's not that young anymore .

Adding the programm under Add/Remove Programs requires a registry entry which is blocked by many corporate PC/laptops (any registry changes) and that's why I decided not to add it there.

You mentioned that LookDisk didn't return some of the files when you tried a text search, do you have a specific example? (e.g. which text wasn't found).

Thanks again for all the feedback.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« on: July 01, 2008, 08:07 AM »

The above statement on LookDisk's trial version is not correct, there are absolutely no feature limitations in the 30-day trial version of LookDisk, i.e. you can try for 30 days the full functionality of LookDisk without any limitations whatsoever.