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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post
« Last post by Darwin on June 07, 2008, 11:55 AM »Congratulations, mediaguycouk! Welcome to the Century Club 
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I have a licence for the Pro version of Double Killer.Would you find a duplicate finder helpful? If you don't already have a favourite, try the excellent Double Killer by Jan Schlüter, who posts here on DC sometimes.-rjbull (June 06, 2008, 03:52 AM)
I works very quickly and REALLY well and is set up in such a way that you can remove duplicate files safely.I'll take it that here we're primarily talking features as an information finder, rather than a plain file finder or file manager.-rjbull (June 06, 2008, 03:34 AM)
I also have a licence for the portable version and basically can't get past it anymore, despite the licences I own for its competitors. A testament to how good it is or a testament to me being set in my ways? In either case, the money I've lashed out for the other file managers is a testament to my being in the grip of a powerful addiction 
Should have trialled Restorer 2000 or RecoverMyFiles... both are quite pricey shareware but offer previews of the files recovered and display the recovered files with their original filename! Of course, if either of these trials had found your file, you'd have been out the purchase price to actually recover it! RecoverMyFiles is $69 for a lifetime licence and Restorer2000 $49 with free updates to the version you buy... My usage of them proceeds this way - try RecoverMyFiles first, proceed to Restorer2000 if RMF doesn't find what I'm looking for. This actually happens only rarely. I should probably do this the other way around as Restorer2000 is MUCH quicker in searching for and displaying deleted content. However, RFM has a slightly more intuitive interface IMHO!-Darwin (June 05, 2008, 08:42 AM)
Do your 15 licenses for file managers include XYplorer? And if so, how do you rate its search functions against those, given that it's a file manager built on a file-finder, rather than the other way round?-rjbull (June 05, 2008, 03:24 AM)
I'm feeling quite embarrassed now (rather than being simply embarrassed)... But c'est la vie! Yes, I have a lifetime licence for XYPlorer and love it. It's search feature is very fine, but I would rate it between SearchGT and FileLocator Pro based on speed AND based on feature set - the differences would be that if speed were determining the criteria, SearchGT would win, whereas on feature set FL Pro would win. However, if you're taking BOTH into account, XYPlorer heads the list! It's quicker than FL Pro and DOES do file content searching. However, I've never really been able to get it to work - all the hits that I get contain my search term in their titles and I KNOW that there are many thousands of files that contain the search term in their content but not in their titles. Anyway, just did such a regular "title" search and it took 79 seconds on 80 GB of data (114,000 files in 9000 folders). Content searches take A LONG TIME. In fact, FL Pro handles this kind of search much more quickly.. FindonClick sounds even better (as you might imagine, I'm very rarely in Windows Explorer!) after your comments, but I'll have to think hard about whether to even try it or not - I"m not in the market for a search app and am not sure that I need any of the other applications that come with it for $30! What I LOVE about SoftMaker/Ashampoo Office is how quickly it opens up and how comparably fully featured it is. I'm waiting impatiently for DataMaker to be released - hope (with a sense of futility) that it will be included as part of a Service Pack for SM Office 2008. Suspect it will be sold as a standalone product initially and included in the next full Office release.