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Armando:
my tests results so far comparing : Copernic Desktop Search vs. X1 Search vs. Dtsearch vs. Archivarius 3000 (limited to 10,000 files due to trial limit).
I tested them on only : one of my archive folder (year 2008) + one folder containing some emails (.eml) + one folder containing some big pdf files and one .epub file).
-jity2 (January 14, 2015, 01:34 AM)
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Cool. This mirrors my own findings.

Archivarius would probably come close to DtSearch in terms of speed and accuracy. Actually, Archivarius sometimes does a better jobs with more complex expressions. Since you used only one term, not a group of words, Archivarius space and hyphen treatment doesn't show here. That's why I combine both -- DtSearch and Archivarius. (Archivarius was pretty cheap when I bought it... many years ago. Never had to pay any upgrade since then.)

That said,  when it comes to sheer power, DtSearch works best.
Hopefully, one day the DtSearch team will implement some of X1's neat features (DtSearch doesn't allow as many actions on found items as X1 does).

(Note that I still use Windows Desktop search to index Outlook stuff. That's because I can integrate it with Find and Run Robot, which makes searching emails, calendar, etc. a breeze.)

Armando:
FileSearchy is another one to keep in mind. It can search both file names and their contents and order them by the number of matches ("relevance") and show the density of matches within each document (besides other filtering options). It was a while ago I compared them but I think I preferred FileSearchy to DocFetcher (I think the search was more complete or something along those lines).
-dr_andus (January 14, 2015, 07:14 AM)
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Does FileSearchy need to index file content (how does the content search work) ?

xtabber:
The dtSearch search engine is available for Windows (.NET) and Linux developers to include in their own applications. The developer's license is pretty pricey at $9,995 (going up to $12,495 on February 1, 2015) per application.  It is royalty-free, but does not allow use in general purpose applications, so you can't use it to build a program that would compete with dtSearch Desktop.

It's interesting that the engine is available for Linux but dtSearch does not sell a desktop Linux application.

dr_andus:
Does FileSearchy need to index file content (how does the content search work) ?
-Armando (January 14, 2015, 03:03 PM)
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It looks like it. When I launch it, for a minute or so there is a little indicator in the bottom left corner that says "indexing". Then it says "Index: ready."

mwb1100:
I don't have too much trouble finding files on my file system since a name search usually nets me what I want and XYplorer does a fine job with that.

However, I use Outlook for email, both at home and at work, and I had major problems finding things there.  I don't do much mailbox organization - I'll stash messages that I *know* I'll need later - like purchase receipts and such - into appropriate folders, but general conversation threads and most other email typically just stays in my inbox.

But Outlook's built-in search is awful, so I sprung for Neo (Nelson E-Mail Organizer) Pro, which has been a major improvement even if its interface is clunky. The ugly interface doesn't bother me much since I can now find what I'm looking for instantly.

So if you're in the same boat as me (file system searches aren't a problem, but Outlook/Exchange searches are), take a look at Neo Pro. They have a generous trial (I forget how long it was, but it was more than 30 days).  I sprung for the standard $50 license, which is good for two machines, but they also have a subscription model that I was surprised to find tempting - $5 a month for all their products on all your machines.  In the end I decided that all I really wanted was the Neo product on two machines, so $50 once was better than $60 a year for me.

They also have a Neo Find product, which is some sort of subset of Neo Pro for $20 for one machine.  I probably should have gone for two Neo Find licenses for $40, but I was too lazy to trial Neo Find to make sure it wasn't missing something I'd need, so I just bought the Pro license.

  - http://www.emailorganizer.com/

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