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General Software Discussion / Re: What makes software 'good'?

« on: May 16, 2008, 03:43 PM »

All that said, there are certain qualities of "usable" software that can be taken as touchstones of its "goodness".

In addition to usability, it's critical to consider how "useful" software is.  Software can be highly polished and usable, while addressing a fairly trivial issue.  Such software would have great usability, but be much less useful than software that solves a more important problem or adds more valuable capabilities.  Tom Landauer was one of the first to address this issue: http://www.amazon.co...tivity/dp/0262621088 .

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Inconsistencies in file matching

« on: January 28, 2006, 01:51 PM »

Ah, I see.  It gets the shortcuts from Recent Files, which then look like folders in the search results.

Thanks for the input.

Mouser--Folder search would be great feature, glad to hear it's coming!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Inconsistencies in file matching

« on: January 28, 2006, 01:23 PM »

Acrystal.. I think your problem has nothing to do with farr inconsistencies..
Farr doesn't search for folders, only files.

-jgpaiva (January 28, 2006, 01:18 PM)

F&RR doesn't search for folders?  Seems to me it does.. See the attached screenshot for an example--the first result is a folder.  Or is there something I'm missing?

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Find And Run Robot / Inconsistencies in file matching

« on: January 28, 2006, 09:57 AM »

I am trying to use F&RR primarily as a file search tool.  I have ~ 7,700 files in a "My Projects" folder under "My Documents."  There are many subfolders in a fairly deep hierarchy under My Projects.

I want to be able to quickly search for specific files OR folders using F&RR.  My problem is that sometimes this works beautifully, sometimes not at all.

For example, I have this folder:
G:\Documents and Settings\...\journal articles\individual differences (JASIST)

If I launch F&RR and search for 'individual,' it comes right up as the first hit.  Perfect.

But I also have this folder:
G:\Documents and Settings\...\My Projects\Consulting

If I launch F&RR and search for 'consulting'--no results.  Same for any shorter string (e.g. 'consult') or 'consult*'.

I've seen similar discrepancies with other folders and files--can't see any obvious pattern.


Any ideas?

Thanks,
--Abe