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Find And Run Robot / Re: save file feature?

« on: September 19, 2008, 10:49 AM »

what you can do is:

• use farr to find the file.
• select it and hit ctrl+C to copy path.
• then paste the file path into your application save directory.

-mouser (September 16, 2008, 07:14 PM)

Thanks, it works nice as a workaround.

(I didn't know flash folder but I prefer using the simple trick above instead of relying on another software when it is possible)

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Find And Run Robot / save file feature?

« on: September 12, 2008, 10:17 PM »

When saving an image or a file from the browser (or any application) we have to choose a location with the crappy windows interface and it is always a pain.

Since that FARR file explorer feature is great It would be nice if we could use FARR to save files.
We would just type the name of the folder we want to save inside and it would be done.
We would also have access to our recent typed locations...
Of course we should also be able to choose a name (or let the name by default).

FARR should be used for our everyday most used things and tasks, and it involves the file explorer a lot. I would really appreciate a complete interface to windows inside FARR...  That is what claims all the file launchers but until now FARR is the first to allow browsing the file system in a useful manner so I'd like it to be full featured.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: The killer feature request (maybe impossible to do on windows)

« on: September 12, 2008, 08:02 PM »

I was thinking this functionality not only for images in fact..., but since it would be even harder to do just images would be nice enough (if a lot of formats would be recognized, like PSD, RIFF etc...)
Putting the search results in a "virtual" windows folder would let us use any application to view the images (or anything else) so we could see any format, or create "work folders" on the fly.

(it would be nice to be able to make a second search to add to a previous work folder also)

I think it is the funtionality I'd like to have built in in any OS (being able to quickly create group of files without having to bother where they could be on the HD. And manage these groups... It may look like the tag system... but since it would managed with FARR it looks like it would be a lot more usable)

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Find And Run Robot / The killer feature request (maybe impossible to do on windows)

« on: September 12, 2008, 12:04 PM »

I suggest a feature I thought about using gmail search.

When you search for mails with "donation coder" in gmail you have a "search results" page you can browse.
You can look at the first message, the continue to the next, or come back to the search results page.

In short, you have defined a sub-domain of your data, and you can quietly search within this restricted domain.

What I would like FARR to do is for example:
You browse a directory "my images", and you want to display only the images of your last trip to the moon
So you type " myimages\ TAB moon", but then you want to browse these pictures, and these pictures only.
So it would be nice to have a feature that displays all the listed files in a virtual folder, so you can browse it with your favorite apps or whatever.

I guess the windows file system won't allow this to become reality but at least I tried to ask.
Thanks.