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What is the currently best Desktop Search software?
Darwin:
Holy smokes, Batman! I just noticed the "File Finder" entry in my context menu and put it through its paces. Wow! It's PowerDesk Pro 6's search feature. Works without indexing and is as quick as Search GT (and as accurate/thorough as well). An added bonus is that it can be further configured to search within files. It's really impressive and I'm going to continue to put it through its paces.
Best thing: PowerDesk is a very good File Manager, comes with Stellent Viewers, and can be had for the princely sum of $9.95 (presumably until PD 7 comes out). Thanks, Curt and cthorpe, for finding this for us last year (I've just confirmed that the discount is still active) :Thmbsup:
Curt:
Best thing: PowerDesk is a very good File Manager, -Darwin (March 16, 2008, 11:05 AM)
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- must be, because it is never updated... :P
Do you really expect there will be a version 7 ?? :-\
Anyway, even if it was updated or even upgraded I would only get any new version if it was absolutely gratis. I have purchased three programs via Avanquest (Vcom is part of Avanquest), and not one of them has ever been updated, or if they were updated, I was somehow never entitled to the new version. I cannot and will not recommend Avanquest!
PowerDesk ..... can be had for the princely sum of $9.95-Darwin (March 16, 2008, 11:05 AM)
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Avanquest:
What is the currently best Desktop Search software?
Well, in all fairness, it actually may be new - I don't know
- it may even be reguarly updated for those who purchased it at full price - right?
My version of PowerDesk Pro is 6.0.4.2 © 1998-2005 - Any newer ones? :tellme:
Edit:
Maybe 'someone' will download the supposedly new trial and tell what version's number it is? :tellme:
Carol Haynes:
I bought AutoSave 2 from Avanquest years ago and it was updated a couple of time in quick succession but hasn't seen any further development for a very long time. They seem to specialise in good ideas that then die a quiet death which continuing to sell the products.
To be fair when they had updated versions it was just a case of downloading the trial version from the site and installing it over the registered copy.
The other thing I have noticed is that lots of their titles say they are Vista compat and yet haven't seen a version change since Vista was released.
I think they are basically acting as a reseller these days as i notice they now sell NitroPDF and that wasn't one of their products previously.
f0dder:
The other thing I have noticed is that lots of their titles say they are Vista compat and yet haven't seen a version change since Vista was released.-Carol Haynes (March 16, 2008, 01:56 PM)
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Properly coded applications don't need changes to be Vista compatible :) - except for a few special cases like file managers that need better junction support.
Carol Haynes:
You would have thought that AutoSave (which is a file versioning utility) would at least need tweaking!
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