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What is the currently best Desktop Search software?
cyberdiva:
Newish article about the " Best desktop search tools " and a Summary ...
-Armando (August 25, 2010, 09:28 PM)
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Both of these links go to the summary.
cyberdiva:
Armando, I too am very interested in what you think/find. A couple of years ago I tracked down a copy of Yahoo Desktop Search (by then it was no longer readily available), which is based on X1. Yahoo works well, but I have no idea whether it would work on Windows 7 (my desktop runs XP Pro), nor what other features X1 might offer that Yahoo does not. I suspect that X1 may also be more configurable than Yahoo. I've also got Archivarius, but I've never gotten it to work smoothly for me, and it seems very sluggish next to Yahoo. So I'd really like to know what you find about X1.
CWuestefeld:
I had been using Copernic + Xobni for some time. But Xobni started killing Outlook, and Copernic just got too annoying in demanding to upgrade to a new version that has fewer features.
So now I'm just using WDS. This works well enough on the indexing side. However, the UI is pure evil. To do any sophisticated queries you need to know their query syntax. I've made up a cheat sheet that I've got tacked to my wall.
Darwin:
The thing that p****s me off about WDS is that it's extremely random as to whether or not it will index my documents. I'm on Win 7 but have partitioned my drive into C: for windows and apps and E: for documents, settings, and mail. I suspect that therein lies the source of my problem. I reinstalled the latest version of X1, was thrilled/surprised to find that my license still works, and it's been flawless. My only quibble is that my harddrive and fan both go nuts every so often, I expect when X1 is updating. I also installed the latest versions of Archivarius and dtSearch. Settled on X1 because it creates an index that is 30% smaller than dtSearch and half the size of the one created by Archivarius. X1 also integrates with the search bar in the start menu.
Honestly, I'm not sure if I'm going to stick with it, though. Time will tell...
cranioscopical:
my harddrive and fan both go nuts every so often-Darwin
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I think this is probably true of all your fans ;)
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