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Biggest problem I have with it is the unwieldy - at least for me - tagging system. When I store something, it'll have multiple tags. However, I'm unable to search on combined tags. That means that my tag input is increased significantly. Example would beThat 3rd tag should not be necessary, but it is, as far as I can tell. Should be able to search/limit, for instance, Donation + Coder without having created the Donation Coder tag.
- Donation
- Coder
- Donation Coder
-barney (March 25, 2015, 02:27 AM)
The creator of xplorer2 just released DeskRule, a new desktop search tool. The bottom of the product page has a comparison to Windows Search, Everything, Filelocator Pro, X1 Search, and Copernic. After the free trial, it costs $40.-twinkler (March 22, 2015, 10:12 PM)
Agreed - I have really fond memories of X1 from 2001 through about 2008/9, at which point I began searching for alternatives. Every so often, I give the latest version a whirl, most recently this past fall (October? November?). I still find it quite slow and that it has a noticeable impact on my computer (i7 notebook with 4GB dedicated video memory and 32GB RAM running two SSD drives). Thus, it never lasts long... I use the built in Windows Search for just about everything and have dtSearch installed and updated for more complex searches. Like Armando, I have a license for Archivarius but find that I don't need it with dtSearch installed. I settled on dtSearch for my own use because as much as I love Archivarius I find that it's index get larger and larger over time. Haven't had it installed in a couple of years, though, might be time to revisit it. dtSearch has better previewers as well (or did; don't know about today).-Darwin (January 29, 2015, 05:00 PM)
[Sorry, I'm being off topic, but Darwin is certainly my best desktop search friend.]
I have probably tried all of the local desktop search tools and nothing compares to X1.
Speed, beautiful previews using Oracle Outside In (acquired from Stellent), stability.-motiontwelve (January 29, 2015, 09:32 PM)
I use this everyday, both at work and at home.
X1's Lightning-Fast Search Software is the Premium Alternative to Windows Desktop and Outlook Search.
X1's award winning, easy-to-use interface simplifies the way business professionals search and act upon desktop files, emails, attachments, SharePoint data, and more.-rmanning4 (January 19, 2015, 07:12 PM)
Agent Ransack does not build or maintain an index, it searches on the fly. So it can be accurate (at least when I've used it) but don't expect results fast if you're looking through a lot of stuff. It's most useful if you can narrow down the best place to look.-x16wda (January 19, 2015, 10:29 AM)
AgentRansack beats them all
and its free...https://www.mythicsoft.com/-vmars316 (January 18, 2015, 05:27 PM)
I rarely use it for search, but it's been a constant drain on resources, so I might just have to disable it permanently. So for me the FileSearchy approach probably makes more sense.-dr_andus (January 16, 2015, 06:20 AM)
Does FileSearchy need to index file content (how does the content search work) ?-Armando (January 14, 2015, 03:03 PM)
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."-dr_andus (January 15, 2015, 01:43 PM)
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)
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)
Armando,
I have tried X1 with the big pdf file inside your link : https://www.donation....msg220457#msg220457
Indeed, to my surprise, the pdf is not indexed in full by X1 ! I have tested it into another big pdf file of mine and I have the same result ! ;(
I don't know why but X1 stops indexing pdf files after some number of characters. Maybe 1Million or something else like Google Drive? I don't know !
Also I noticed that X1 did not index some of my yearly subfolders (see above).
I going to test dtsearch !
See ya-jity2 (January 12, 2015, 02:57 AM)
In fact after watching some videos about it, I won't try it because I don't use regex for searching keywords, and because the interface seems not very enough user friendly (I don't want to click many times just to do a keyword search !).-jity2 (January 10, 2015, 03:12 AM)
It was interesting to see him outline how Schmidt has always been politically connected.
About the only thing he didn't say was that Schmidt (and the like) are part of the shadow government.-Renegade (October 29, 2014, 06:43 PM)
Unfortunately no luck reaching the three under "Lots of screencasts/videos… Here are some interesting URLs with a few fun tricks"...-ewemoa (October 20, 2014, 06:11 PM)
... so... have no experience with Stacked Git. Sounds interresting...
