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Author Topic: Search  (Read 10120 times)

ron101

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« on: November 26, 2009, 05:21 AM »
Is there something that is faster window search coz i find it so sloooow??

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Re: Search
« Reply #1 on: November 26, 2009, 06:01 AM »
Locate32 and Everything both builds databases to search from, which are pretty instant. And of course there's DonationCoder.com's Find And Run Robot that searches windows very fast and has a bunch of useful options and plugins.

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Re: Search
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2009, 08:08 AM »
Thanks, but what do you use to make FARR search the files ?

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Re: Search
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2009, 08:16 AM »
use this plugin to search for files instantly

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Re: Search
« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2009, 08:20 AM »
or here's the everything one
https://www.donation....msg146677#msg146677

anyone know how they compare?
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Re: Search
« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2009, 12:12 PM »
I'm using the stand alone SearchMyFiles from NirSoft. Little and quick.

It allows you to easily search files in your system by wildcard, by last modified/created/last accessed time, by file attributes, by file content (text or binary search), and by the file size. SearchMyFiles allows you to make a very accurate search that cannot be done with Windows search. For Example: You can search all files created in the last 10 minutes with size between 500 and 700 bytes.
After you made a search, you can select one or more files, and save the list into text/html/csv/xml file, or copy the list to the clipboard.
SearchMyFiles is portable, and you can use it from a USB flash drive without leaving traces in the Registry of the scanned computer.

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Re: Search
« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2009, 03:02 PM »
Oldie but goodie freeware Agent Ransack.

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Re: Search
« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2009, 09:12 PM »
Thanks, but what do you use to make FARR search the files ?

try this Farr plugin: TinyEV which integrates "Everything" into Farr.

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Re: Search
« Reply #8 on: November 27, 2009, 02:23 AM »
or here's the everything one
https://www.donation....msg146677#msg146677

try this Farr plugin: TinyEV which integrates "Everything" into Farr.

there seems to be two everything plugins(?) - the thread lanux links to seems to be more active
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Re: Search
« Reply #9 on: November 27, 2009, 06:55 AM »
Thank you all of you, how do i make the tinyEV work im a bit puzzled, i put it in the plugin folder (the zip file  FARR_TinyEv-0.9.5.zip) then what??

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Re: Search
« Reply #10 on: November 27, 2009, 07:45 PM »
Thank you all of you, how do i make the tinyEV work im a bit puzzled, i put it in the plugin folder (the zip file  FARR_TinyEv-0.9.5.zip) then what??

first make sure that 'Everything.exe' is already running in the background. then extract the zip into Farr's plugin folder. e.g. on my PC, it is like this: C:\Program Files\DonationCoder\Farr\Plugins. after that, just restart Farr and TinyEv would be available.

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Re: Search
« Reply #11 on: November 27, 2009, 07:49 PM »
there seems to be two everything plugins(?) - the thread lanux links to seems to be more active

TinyEv is newer and as its name shows, is 'tinier' and uses less resources. :)

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Re: Search
« Reply #12 on: November 28, 2009, 08:33 PM »
XYplorer doesn't index files for searching, but its real-time file search is amazingly fast. I'm told this file manager started out as a search tool--and I believe it! 8)
http://www.xyplorer.com
http://www.321downlo...Freeware/page22.html

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Re: Search
« Reply #13 on: February 16, 2010, 12:45 PM »
The newest Index Your Files (version 5) also deserves a mention. I'm not suggesting it's better than Everything or Locate32, but I like that it's portable and can display/view media files in its built-in viewer.

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Re: Search
« Reply #14 on: February 26, 2010, 02:28 PM »
Wow, Index Your Files (IYF) wasn't updated in so long (2 years) I had pretty much forgotten about it. Lately IYF has been updated every few days.

Latest version 5.0.0.7 reportedly indexes FAT, FAT32, NTFS, Linux and Network. 8)

http://www.indexyour...les.com/updates.html