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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Post your FARR v2 Plugin Idea Requests Here - Plugin Writers Read In

« Last post by Armando on April 13, 2007, 10:56 AM »

Hello,
I posted this in another thread :

What I'd really like a pluggin to be able to do is :
- Searching phone + emails, etc. in Outlook Contacts
- Searching Calendar items in Outlook
- Searching Tasks in Outlook

Many of these things are already embedded in X1 or Copernic. So, *maybe* FARR could be made to send terms and arguments to X1 and/or Copernic ?

Maybe FARR could be made to use any other popular desktop search (x1, Copernic, Google...) index ?

A.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Don't be fooled, Vista wants new hardware

« Last post by Armando on April 12, 2007, 08:26 PM »

searching my own computer....???
I mean... I use it all the time. All the time. Anybody who's into research (PhD., Science, philosophy, whatever...) uses these tools. How was I able to synthesize 20 digitalized book by/on Nelson Goodman in 2 months, have all my references right, etc., and write a 100pages paper on it ? 
Yep : desktop search (X1 + Copernic, and FARR).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Don't be fooled, Vista wants new hardware

« Last post by Armando on April 12, 2007, 08:22 PM »

Have I missed something? Since when is searching on your own computer so important? I use the windows search maybe once every 2 months... who cares?

-Hirudin (April 11, 2007, 06:25 AM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Desktop Search for network files?

« Last post by Armando on April 12, 2007, 07:44 PM »

I'd suggest X1 enterprise client or copernic. Of all the DesktopSearch programs, I find they are the most reliable. X1 takes a bit more ram but has many more options. Copernic is leaner, a tad faster, but a bit less customizable and will not index certain document features (like "comments" in Word documents). I use both. They can coexist without any problem.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Super Flexible File Synchronizer Pro says Zaine

« Last post by Armando on April 11, 2007, 12:14 AM »

Late to the party but let me throw in a few bits of info.

I've been using SFFS for years and it is a very nice application and works very well. Tobias provides great support and the product is being continually improved. I can't see where it does partial backups though and can't see how it can, as is?

-nevf (March 27, 2007, 05:00 PM)

For those who haven't found out whether Super Flexible File Synchronizer (SFFS) can do partial backups, or if it uses delta synchronization technology, see : http://www.superflexible.com/partial.htm

Basically : "In your profile, make the following checkmark: Use Partial File Updating, which is on the Advanced tab sheet in Advanced Mode."

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Key Launch - the indexed farr we want?

« Last post by Armando on April 01, 2007, 04:56 PM »

adding optional indexing to FARR will make it a killer app. I've long advocated keeping FARR simple and lightweight, but indexing is a reality and it's a feature that many people want. Keeping the core functionality of FARR available without indexing will allow people to choose how they use it. With massive harddrives and lots of RAM the norm these days, an index will hardly be a liability in terms of size and user-controlled indexing (over dinner, perhaps) should be almost imperceptible, if the user chooses to use it at all.

-Darwin (March 28, 2007, 09:48 AM)

As I suggested in the "pluggin" thread, if FARR could "parasite" other desktop search engine indexes (X1,Copernic, Google Desktop...), it wouldn't add to much strain on resources for computer already using desktop search programs. Maybe ?

A.


[modified : Just added a forgotten pronoun]

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Plugin API and Samples for Find+Run Robot Coming Soon.. Requests?

« Last post by Armando on April 01, 2007, 04:34 PM »

Wouldn't it ? 

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Plugin API and Samples for Find+Run Robot Coming Soon.. Requests?

« Last post by Armando on April 01, 2007, 02:32 PM »

Great ! 
Yes, endless possibilities indeed.
But What I'd really like to be able to do is :
- Searching phone + emails, etc. in Outlook Contacts
- Searching Calendar items in Outlook
- Searching Tasks in Outlook

Many of these things are already embedded in X1 or Copernic. So, *maybe* FARR could be made to send search terms and arguments in X1 and/or Copernic ? Or would it be better to have a more autonomous FARR ?

A.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Blue Screens : FARR? just wondering...

« Last post by Armando on March 27, 2007, 01:29 PM »

Thanks jgpaiva

I already had a computer that gave me blue screens, and i was so interested in finding out what causing it that i didn't care for any of my programs anymore

-jgpaiva (March 25, 2007, 05:20 AM)

Yep, that's me.

I've tried everything you suggested : memtest for 12 hours  : nothing. Reinstalling : nada. Changing my RAM modules : niet. Etc. (I might eventually run 2 instances of prime95, and see, but not this week). After all that I've come to the conclusion that it could be related to my hard drive or my motherboard, but I can't be sure... Anyway, I'm now running the HD in "quiet mode" (a bios setting), and I haven't got a BSOD in ... Three days. (that's not enough days to conclude about anything). I first did that to reduce the temperature, but it didn't.
As long as I don't get more BOSDs, I'll be happy.

Thanks

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General Software Discussion / Re: What are your favourite Outlook plugins?

« Last post by Armando on March 25, 2007, 04:35 AM »

WSRAII : http://www.websetter...epeat%20Appointment/

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Blue Screens : FARR? just wondering...

« Last post by Armando on March 24, 2007, 10:37 PM »

On the contrary... I've become  so dependent on FARR. 
I never had any problems with my previous laptop.
I was thinking that *maybe* my problem is hard Drive related and that FARR (maybe -- only mouser knows...) has a special way to search the file system and, in some ways, exposes that problem. Just speculating.

A.

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Find And Run Robot / Blue Screens : FARR? just wondering...

« Last post by Armando on March 24, 2007, 08:33 PM »

Hi people.

I've been experiencing Blue Screens since I got my new computer (Dell inspiron 6400, 9 months ago). "Memory Parity" errors, to be more specific. Now, I've tried pretty much everything I know to resolve my problem (changing RAM modules, removing drivers, changing the page file size, reinstalling windows...). But these damn Blue screens still appear once in a while. Recently, I noticed they always seemed to appear while using FARR. It could really well be mere coincidence. But, in my exasperation, I'm wondering if any of you experienced freezes or similar Blue Screens which could be related to... FARR. I'm hoping not, but at the same time, I so much to resolve that problem -- I've waisted so much time and lost data. i'm fed up.

many many thanks for any advice.

A.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.39 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - January 29, 2007

« Last post by Armando on February 04, 2007, 05:06 PM »

I just think it's convenient. I have an explorer address bar on my taskbar, and even though I always have FARR running, I find myself going to the address bar a lot to quickly open directories. Maybe it just seems more readily available to me because it's always visible.

-alphaex32 (February 04, 2007, 10:55 AM)

I just never use the address bar anymore. But I can understand that you like having everything in one place. It would be a bit like the Copernic bar, or the gnome deskbar (in Linux).

speaking of Linux... Mouser, have you ever thought of porting FARR to Linux? would that be hard? I tried it with Wine at some point and it kinda worked -- but I didn't try it that much since my main working platform is Windows (until I can find a replacement for every single app). (Anybody using Linux around here?  )

Farr would also be quicker because you wouldnt have to bring up the main interface, as its always visible in the taskbar.

-Josh (February 04, 2007, 12:20 PM)

Probably, yes. If it adds some speed, I'm all for it!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.39 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - January 29, 2007

« Last post by Armando on February 03, 2007, 01:18 PM »

Btw, it would be awesome if you could integrate this into a taskbar toolbar somehow.

-alphaex32 (February 03, 2007, 08:44 AM)

May this belongs to another thread, but I wonder what extra functionnality would that add?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.39 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - January 29, 2007

« Last post by Armando on January 30, 2007, 07:22 PM »

Hi Mouser,

I just noticed that the window transparency setting doesn't work anymore. It actually works only when I move the slide, but once it's set and I close the Option window, the FARR main window goes back to its normal opacity.

Screenshots :
- on the first screenshot you can see that the "window transparency" setting is set to about medium transparency, but FARR is completely "opaque" (not transparent).
- On the second screen shot, FARR becomes transparent when I move the cursor with my mouse... but it will go back to its opacity as soon as I'll close the Option window.

A.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.39 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - January 29, 2007

« Last post by Armando on January 30, 2007, 01:17 PM »

hmm.. what on earth have i done.. and why aren't these things happening for me..
sounds like an issue with my autoshrink timer - ill have another look.
now we know why these are still alphas 

-mouser (January 30, 2007, 11:11 AM)

Don't worry, in taht case, even Win Xp service-pack 2 is alpha...  after billions of $ and many years of work.
FARR is perfectly useable as it is since I use it once every 5min!!! 

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.39 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - January 29, 2007

« Last post by Armando on January 29, 2007, 04:10 PM »

Another thing I noticed :

Sometimes, FARR will have to be "closed" and "relaunched" with the hotkey to have it start searching normally again or to  show the history list (blanking the search field) -- otherwise it just doesn't search or show history when blanking the search field.

This happens when I double click on a result to open it (I know... I'm note supposed to use the mouse! But I’m testing!). After the file is opened, if I then blank the field or change the characters in the search filed it will not do anything.

I don't know if it will happen in other circumstances.

Hope that my clumsy English is understandable…

A.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.39 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - January 29, 2007

« Last post by Armando on January 29, 2007, 03:49 PM »

Thanks Mouser.

quickly, 2 things :

- If I set FARR to display extra columns (type, score, ....) and when set to "auto-shrink", the result field is jumpy when it reaches bottom of the screen (comlumns "jump" horizontaly). (jumpy BEahavior will be a bit less distracting if I set a fixed size for the window -- but it seems that I sometime ran in the issue of FARR changing my set size for the window... Have do double check that assertion thouhg)
- If I set the "inactive memory use" to "Stay in memory longer", FARR sometimes stalls (it won't appear when I press the hotkey and the taskmanger will show relatively high CPU activity -- more than 30% -- for the process. So, for now, I keep the "average" setting -- noproblem with this one.

That's it for now...

A.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Searching Outlook items, etc. : contacts, calendar events, todos...

« Last post by Armando on January 27, 2007, 01:57 PM »

Yes, of course Mouser : after v2. FARR is already amazing.
A.

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Find And Run Robot / Searching Outlook items, etc. : contacts, calendar events, todos...

« Last post by Armando on January 27, 2007, 12:02 PM »

Is there a way to do that with FARR?
Right now, each time I want to see a contact (for a phone # or whatever), a "Todo", calendar entry, I need to open Outlook or use x1.
It would be nice if FARR could do something like that (I believe QuickSilver can do that type of stuff) ... Maybe a plugin?
Cheers
A.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.37 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - January 21, 2007

« Last post by Armando on January 24, 2007, 02:43 PM »

Gee. I was using X1 and Copernic today and, although I'm using them for a different purpose than FARR, I must say that I find FARR much more reliable and predictable. X1 is sluggish and doesn't index my biggest documents completely, copernic refuses to show (in preview window) big documents completely, etc. And both crash from time to time. FARR has not even crashed once in a year and WORKS REALLY WELL for what it's meant to do.
I have to congratulate you again Mouser! I know that words of thanks are not money  , but... in the mean time.
Armando.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.25 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - January 13, 2007

« Last post by Armando on January 14, 2007, 12:00 AM »

> Size, Delete

Both of these questions, as well as some earlier ones, are basically asking for FARR to incrementally take on more and more of the role of a file explorer/browser. While this is a very tempting idea, I don't think that such features should be added on piecemeal. What about showing/changing the file timestamp? Showing/changing attributes? What about rename? Bulk rename? What about copy/move? Hmm, so what about showing both source & target panes? What about drilling down into zip/archive files?

BUT... there already are some superb 3rd party file explorers (Total Comander for me), and mouser still has on his plate, almost untouched, a whole pile of strategic questions to address for FARR 3 that directly relate to FARR's central job of being a launcher on steroids.

-jdmarch (January 09, 2007, 09:17 AM)

In some ways, I agree.
But... is X1 -- which has all these very very handy sorting options -- another "explorer"? Would you use X1 instead of "explorer" or "total commander"?
To me FARR is a launcher, yes. But it's efficiency and power partly comes from the fact that it's a great file browser and "sorter". I don't think that adding more ways to browse folders and files (without slowing it down too much) and classify them will hamper its main function : lunch files -- especially if the user is able toggle these options on or off, depending on her need (FARR already does it, it allows tweaking). On the contrary : everybody has slightly different needs when it comes to file launching, file sorting, file exploring, file managing....etc. (And that's probably why you like Total Commander... personnally, I'm satisfied with explorer... Strange, I know  )

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Latest FARR v2.00.25 ALPHA PREVIEW Release - January 13, 2007

« Last post by Armando on January 13, 2007, 11:41 PM »

Seems to be working really really well. Bravo. 


I like Babis' suggestion of having a "size" column...

And why not adding the ability to “click” on a column header (name, size, type, or score) to sort files accordingly (explorer like behavior)? This could be very very useful in cases where you want to see many files belonging to a common  “project” (with very similar names) sorted in a way that can be easier to read (depending on one's need).

And, even better, there could be an option to set the default action.

And… of course, aliases could be assigned to different searches, all with different “sorting options”…

Of course, that might be too complicated to add in v.2…

Good luck with v.2’s finishing touch!

Armando

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR and X1 (or other desk. Search tools)

« Last post by Armando on January 04, 2007, 05:55 PM »

Interesting...

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR and X1 (or other desk. Search tools)

« Last post by Armando on January 04, 2007, 01:40 PM »

Excellent! and of course, it works...

Thank you very much Mouser. And good luck with the last miles towards the final release of FARR 2.0 !