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What is the currently best Desktop Search software?
Darwin:
Nope. No database support either, as far as I can tell. At least not with default settings (I tried searching for some stuff in some Access files. No joy. One thing that irks me a bit about WDS is the lack of options... it's hard to tweak it. Anyway, I'm enjoying it as an Outlook indexer and still love Archivarius. As you note, the plain text approach does make it lightning fast :Thmbsup:
Armando:
Thanks... OK then. :(
At least Archivarius will index databases... It looks a bit "dirty" and it's a bit hard to read... but better than nothing I guess.
PPLandry:
Nope. No database support either, as far as I can tell. At least not with default settings (I tried searching for some stuff in some Access files. No joy. One thing that irks me a bit about WDS is the lack of options... it's hard to tweak it. Anyway, I'm enjoying it as an Outlook indexer and still love Archivarius. As you note, the plain text approach does make it lightning fast :Thmbsup:
-Darwin (February 28, 2008, 11:02 PM)
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WDS indexes MDB files (and hence SNDB). However, it only gives you the filename. Once you've identified the file, you then repeat the search with SQLNotes.
Darwin:
That's odd - it (WDS) is not turning up any of the *.mdb filenames I search for but it IS turning up xls files from the same folder. I'll have to look at how I've got it set up.
johnk:
I know there's been quite a bit of chat in this thread about support for Outlook in desktop search programs, so some of you might be interested in news of the latest version of Archivarius (from the web site):
March 08, 2008 – Archivarius 3000 (Version 4.00)
* Visio diagrams are now supported (.vsd).
* TNEF messages are now supported (.tnef).
* Search duplicate documents feature have been added.
* Lotus Notes/Domino databases support was improved (.nsf).
* Outlook mailboxes support was improved (.pst).
* Minor changes.
I don't use Outlook these days, so I can't say if the improvements in PST support are significant.
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