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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Instant Folder Access (no matter how deep you buried it)

« on: June 27, 2006, 05:52 PM »

I can't offer help with Google Desktop as I've used the free version of Copernic for years and it works great with Firefox (and everything else!). But I would recommend that to you.

But that is NOT the program I desire. I need to open a folder full of files, not a specific file. You're right; my desktop search program works fine for that.

Check out FDwin as a good start. But it could be so much better.

My needs are more like this: I want to open an Explorer window to this folder:
C:\Backup\Firefox\Profiles\1exs2nw5.default\colorzilla\palettes

I type in just this: palettes

FDwin gives me a list of the (few) folders that contain that string. I click it and there's Explorer, open to that folder.

Now that I'm used to it, I can't believe how long it takes other people double-clicking this and double-clicking that just to get to where they want to be!

Anyone?

AL

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Instant Folder Access (no matter how deep you buried it)

« on: June 16, 2006, 12:23 AM »

For years I've used a program called FDwin at least twenty time per day. It was abandoned years ago, (although you can still find it here: http://www.spsoftwar...apps/FDwin/fdwin.asp ) but it only limps along in XP. Does anyone want to recreate and improve it?

Its premise is simple: an icon lives in the system tray, click it (or hit a hotkey) and up comes a small dialog box. Type in any string, hit enter, and the program displays a list of every folder on your hard drive that contains that string. Double-click the one you want and the program instantly opens an Explorer window to that folder.

Imagine: to get to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Fonts\Reqrd\Base\PFM I type "pfm" and press Enter twice instead of open Explorer, double-click this, double-click that, double-click this, double-click that, etc.

How? Once in a while you have it scan your hard drive, recording every folder it finds into a simple file. Then when you want a particular folder, it just scans that tiny file quickly, finds the full address of all the folders that match, and then feeds the chosen folder to Explorer.

And if I haven't convinced you yet to code it, maybe I have convinced you to download and try it because it will save you dozens of double-clicks everyday!