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What is the currently best Desktop Search software?
Shades:
Even for desktop searches I use a small grep tool called: BareGrep
Really love this piece of freeware. Get it from www.baremetalsoft.com
My system is not indexed in any way and it takes 1.5 seconds to search my complete C: drive for all *.jpg files (and finding 6045 of them).
It is also portable (one executable file which is about 200 kilobyte in size).
dantheman:
Even for desktop searches I use a small grep tool called: BareGrep
Really love this piece of freeware. Get it from www.baremetalsoft.com
My system is not indexed in any way and it takes 1.5 seconds to search my complete C: drive for all *.jpg files (and finding 6045 of them).
It is also portable (one executable file which is about 200 kilobyte in size).
-Shades (April 26, 2008, 04:22 PM)
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I like that!
Never heard of it before but it looks cool!
You may not be in the know, but you never know!
Is there a way to have words with "foreign" accents searched too?
Curt:
No, even the BareGrep PRO version cannot search special characters.
"æ":
:down:
- but it is fast!
Dormouse:
- but it is fast!
-Curt (April 26, 2008, 05:39 PM)
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But slow for me. I started it on a search on my C drive (no option to search all drives that I could find), I then switched to SearchGT doing the same search across 3 drives (total GB over ten times greater). SearchGT completed its search quite a while before BareGrep/
Carol Haynes:
I found it awesomly fast on my data files - especially as it searched content as well. It seemed to me to be as fast as most of the indexed search apps.
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