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I have 10 HDD. I using WhereIsIt software to index all files. I have many text file larger than 100KB and I want index text file content. But it only support from 4KB to 32KB.

I moving to Google Desktop, but it very bad. I cannot start indexing as I wish. It only indexing when my computer in IDLE status.

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@DaveParillo: BLN actually asks for a specific feature, to manually start indexing. – Peter Jaric Jun 7 '10 at 19:54
@snowlord: hmm... I can accept that... Perhaps I read the question too broadly, but the question seems to be mainly "Help! I need text file indexing software" This question has been asked many times before & the tools referred to on those other posts allow manual indexing. – DaveParillo Jun 7 '10 at 20:09
@DaveParillo: Can you suggest best software? – BLN Jun 7 '10 at 20:36
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Locate32 might be the answer to your problems.

It supports on-demand file indexing according to this review: http://www.techmalaya.com/2008/02/18/windows-file-search-locate32/ ("you need to run the “Update Databases” command from the “File” menu.")

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Thank you very much :) – BLN Jun 7 '10 at 20:06
But, I cannot view text content in database. It need connect to HDD :( – BLN Jun 7 '10 at 20:21
@BLN: I've searched the Locate32 forums and sadly, there doesn't seem to to be any way to view content when the disks are offline. Feel very free to untick my answer! – Peter Jaric Jun 7 '10 at 20:41
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There are few windows choices available. Copernic is arguably the best third party desktop search for windows (that uses indexing). I admit that I used to like Copernic much better back before they split the product into 'Free', 'Pro' and 'Corporate'. Now you have to pay for the 'pro' level to get network HDD search.

Super Finder XT is a free tools that has been updated to give a 'Ribbon' similar to Office 2007. It's a fast indexer, has a reasonable memory footprint, can integrate with the explorer & has documentation in many languages. Honestly, I can't remember if you can see the file contents when running your search.

A tool that I have not used, but have heard people talk about is Exalead. It used to be a commercial-only product, but now comes in a free edition. I have no idea if you can tune the indexing the way you are asking.

Depending on how important this feature is to you, you may consider an upgrade to Windows 7. The desktop search included with the OS is a far cry from the horribly broken search that used to be the windows standard - good enough that you probably would not need a third party desktop search. I admit to not being a windows 7 search expert, but the few times I've used it it's a major upgrade from Windows XP.

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