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

« on: September 07, 2016, 08:06 AM »

Sorry, I have no experience about Exselo and Lookeen.

I have finally bought Archivarius in order to do a full testing. I really do not like it, and as far as I have tested it, I find X1 far more reactive and much simpler to use. 

That is the reason why I would like to keep X1 and improve my X1 5.2.3 version behavior.
My main concern with this version of X1 is that it does not index the content of docx, xlsx, pptx, odt, ods, odp, and xml files.
Has somebody found a trick in order to solve this?

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

« on: February 29, 2016, 04:33 AM »

Sorry for my bad formatting. I have tried to make my tests very seriously but I guess you deserve more info :
The first dtsearch test is with the exact keywords that you provided a) b)...etc
I also added " means your help readme  files founds (not tested on every rows - only 6 - sorry!)". I have colored some cells on only 6 rows if it found "Readme36.doc" and "Readme36.pdf" files.
You may may remove it for clarity if you want to.

In the second one I modified the a) b) so Dtsearch understands what I want to search : so the syntax of the keyword are slightly modified.

Probably column "AS" should be moved to column "BA for instance".

The first GOOGLE DRIVE test is with the exact files that are in your zip folder once unzipped (no file is converted to Google Document).
I didn't have time to add the correct numbers in all cells on that part. Please add them. Thanks.

Also I let the cell with numbers blank instead of color them in orange.

Hope this helps

-jity2 (February 29, 2016, 01:22 AM)

OK, I have modified a little bit the formating. I hope it is more clear now.
In my mind, blank cells are for tests that have not been made, green for successful tests, and orange for failed tests.
Note that the Excel file http://goo.gl/NKHEor is part of this web page where I report my experience since many years (but in French):
http://goo.gl/8YTpIL

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

« on: February 28, 2016, 05:12 PM »

I have just sent you my tests with your files on Dtsearch and Google Drive.

-jity2 (February 28, 2016, 10:53 AM)

OK, thank you. I have incorporated your tests inside my Excel file http://goo.gl/NKHEor

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

« on: September 15, 2015, 12:17 AM »

Test updated:
https://www.dropbox....ation_test3.xls?dl=0

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

« on: September 14, 2015, 11:40 PM »

I have found my error. I was using the same syntax as with X1, but it does not work the same in Archivarius.
I was searching for
unusualword ecz
instead of
unusualword ecz*

I will update my Excel file soon.

Thanks Armando and Jibz !

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

« on: September 14, 2015, 11:33 PM »

Thanks.
Same here for Morphology:


I will probably contact the author of Archivarius in order to try to solve my problem.

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

« on: September 14, 2015, 06:15 PM »

OK, these are good news. It prooves that I an missing something.

I have the default settings.
It seems that I have the appropriate encodings selected (see attachment).

I have added some options for cyrillic languages but it should not change my problem (I use French and English only).

What else should I check ?

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

« on: September 13, 2015, 05:10 AM »

I have made the test explained here :
https://www.dropbox....ation_test3.zip?dl=0

And it is a complete failure for Archivarius. Here is the updated spreadsheet with Archivarius results:
https://www.dropbox....ation_test3.xls?dl=0

My conclusion: it seems that Archivarius is not suitable for people who use accented characters
Or perhaps I have missed something ?

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

« on: September 13, 2015, 03:54 AM »

OK. Indeed I have a lot of media files with no text inside (does archivarius read the metadata in the images?).
Since I have 73 GB free on my HDD I decided to go on.
And Archivarius tells me that I cannot index more than 10000 files in the evaluation version.
OK. So I decided to index just a small directory to see what happens.
And first problem: my version of Archivarius only uses huge fonts (size 16), and I get very few information on my 1920x1200 pixels display!
And the option to change the font size do not accept any change. Is it the same for you?
EDIT: OK, I have found the problem. The font was 160% by default.

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

« on: September 12, 2015, 05:49 PM »

Hello.
Following my previous discussion (here above, April 2015), I just decided to test Archivarius 3000 (4.74 version, 64 bit). A fine feature is that Archivarius gives an estimation of the index size before starting the indexing. But the index is HUGE. Look at the comparison with my old X1 Desktop Search Version 5.2.3 (Build 1852bz-bs) (Released Friday, August 26, 2005).
I have tried to select the same files, but they are some litte disprecancies (the directories excluded from the index are not exactly the sames).

                       X1              Archivarius
number of files   2,169,441     1,906,091      Almost the same files indexed
size of files      4 TB approx.   4110 GB
size of index      2.1 GB          1521 GB

Archivarius index is 700 times larger than X1 one!
For that reason, I cannot go on with this test. I need to buy a new drive, reserved for Archivarius index!

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

« on: April 30, 2015, 06:44 PM »

Thanks Armando. It seems that Archivarius will be the next software that I will test.

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

« on: April 19, 2015, 03:49 PM »

Hello. I am a long time user of X1 (since version 2.0).
I am still using daily my old X1 Desktop Search Version 5.2.3 (Build 1852bz-bs) (Released Friday, August 26, 2005), running on Windows 8.1 and indexing about 2,000,000 files (about 4 TB of data) on several volumes (internal drives, USB drive, NAS).
I have kept this version because after version 5.2.3, X1 began to deal with the accented letters in a bad way (I have written several posts on this subject on the X1 forum). And when finally X1 got a satisfactory way to deal with accented letters, X1 lost the ability to index Thunderbird email, which is incompatible with my use.
But more and more frequently, I realize that X1 misses some of my files. Sometimes it is solved by re-indexing (it takes around 36 hours), but some files refuse to be indexed for an unknown reason...
By the way, I do not trust X1 searches any longer, and I am looking at some other solutions.

I have found this forum today, and there are interesting discussions here.
That is why I post this message here, in order to follow these discussions.

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General Software Discussion / Re: MsgTag down?

« on: February 18, 2014, 06:42 AM »

Same problem. I am using it since year 2005 and really need MSGTAG to come back, or to find a replacement for it.