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A more stable alternative Meta Tracker Linux search system
An indexed search system is a very convenient tool for many computer-related tasks.
I have been using Meta Tracker for a few years on Ubuntu and have met a lot of issues:
sometimes the Tracker icon ...
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Fast search within text files in windows
Is there a program for windows that would do a great job of searching within files?
I have a folder that I constantly need to search in for certain text, It would be nice to have a program that ...
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Desktop/server search engine with night time indexing
Is there some desktop/server search engine (such as Google Desktop or Copernic) satisfying the below requests.
Requests:
Must work on Windows server and Windows 7 environments.
Indexing can be ...
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Local image search against a source image?
I came across this: Is there a free visual similarity image local hard drive search?. However, it doesn't answer the question and the solutions don't work.
Basically, I have a directory structure of ...
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Is there a free visual similarity image local hard drive search?
I'm looking for a desktop search engine for finding images on my local hard drive with high visual similarity. I've only found paid for ones so far. It could be linux or windows one, either would be ...
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search solution for local files
Edit: how does voidtools compare with google desktop, and with windows 7 native spotlight search.
I want to have a convenient solution on windows where I can search through all my offline documents ...
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Desktop icons tab below are white
I don't remember what I did, but the text tab below the icons are all white. It is a PC running XP
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Is there any desktop search engine on Linux that can index including the NTFS?
I am using Arch Linux. I have tried beagle search engine. I can add the /mnt/windows (my NTFS drive) for indexing by beagle. But when I search, there is no result from /mnt/windows. Besides that, I ...
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Windows 7 not searching in non-indexed folders
I am simply not able to use the Windows 7 search box to find files in the current directory.
The following are my settings:
I have currently configured Windows Indexing only to search in my "Start ...
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Escape from Windows 7 “Search Results” path
When I do a search for files on my system with Windows 7 built-in search, it opens a window with search results. If ones of the results is a folder and I open it, I go to a location like ...
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How to back up Windows 7's “Indexing Options” settings?
I'd like to back up (and be able to restore upon Windows 7 reinstall) all my heavily-customised Indexing Options settings.
e.g. I have VERY customised list of file types that I have ticked in the ...
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my windows 7 'search program and files ' not functioning
For last few weeks the search bar at the very bottom of windows main navigation is not working. Can anybody give the possible ways to fix this.
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Search for text inside a bunch of Photoshop files
I have hundreds of Photoshop files that contain text layers. Is there a way to search for text in these files?
Maybe a connector for Google desktop or Windows search?
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why windows 7 search cannot index my startmenu?
I have set the startmenu folder in windows index setting, but I cannot get the resault about programe in my start menu.
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Can I force full speed to the indexing service of Windows?
On windows 7 there's 'pause' and there's 'indexing speed is reduced due to user activity' but what if one wants full speed during desktop activity?
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I cannot change the order of result columns in Windows Desktop Search 4.0 under Windows XP
I cannot change the order of result columns in Windows Desktop Search 4.0 under Windows XP.
When I searched the web for how to do it, I found comments that under Windows Vista you could right-click ...
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Is Google desktop search a dead project?
I upgraded to outlook 2010 recently and my google desktop search stopped working. I notice google desktop hasn't had a release since Version 1.6.0.1552 (9/30/2008). Anyone know if its a dead project?
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Recommend desktop search software? [closed]
Possible Duplicates:
What's the fastest desktop search tools you've used on Windows?
What's a good alternative to Windows' “Search for Files and Folders”?
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Windows Desktop Search 4 or Windows 7 Search add in for Lotus Notes
Does anyone know if a Windows Desktop Search Add-in (also called IFilter) exists for Lotus Notes that will work with Windows Desktop Search 4.0 (installs on older OS's and is included in Windows 7)? ...
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Portable Google Desktop Search index
I have a huge number of documents and articles indexed using Google Desktop
I sync these data constantly to my USB flash drive
I mount my USB flash drive on my other PC (slow with limited storage) so ...
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Can't see any entries on “File Types” tab on Windows 7's Desktop Search
For some reason, Windows Desktop Search (included with Windows 7.0) now no longer shows any file types on the "Advanced Options" dialog box. Any ideas on how to fix this? WDS claims to be ...
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Full text search of documents on local harddrive and/or shared drive
I am looking for free utility which will index my files in folder and its subfolders, or in network/shared drive.
It must support full text indexing for Office 2007 files, PDF, etc. I have seen Agen ...
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How do I tell Agent Ransack to avoid a particular path/filename pattern?
I've started using Agent Ransack to search an entire directory at once looking for a particular string. The only issue I have with it so far is that if I'm searching in a Subversion working copy, it ...
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Need text file indexing software
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 ...
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Google Desktop Search problems - unable to disable indexing and no index status page
I've been running Google Desktop (I've used both the regular and Enterprise versions) without issues on my Windows 7 64-bit PC for a long time with no issues. I just paved my PC and reinstalled ...
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Generate metadata of all files in a dir?
We are working on a project that is quite big, and its stored in an SVN repository under different folders with many files all over the place. Quite often, it is hard to locate the document that has a ...
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Desktop search combined with Intranet search
I'm looking for a software similiar to Windows Desktop Search or Google Desktop, that can also display results from our Intranet search engine in the same manner it displays regular results ...
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Batch OCR for many PDF files (not already OCRed)?
I use Google Desktop Search (I am on Vista) and not all my PDF files are recognized in my archive folder. It is normal as "PDF files that contain scanned images" are not indexed ( ...
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Is there a free way to make Windows 7 Search return results like the X1 search client?
X1 has a pretty nice desktop search product. Windows 7 comes with a built-in search indexer. Is there a free/open source way to make the Windows 7 search return search results like the X1 client?
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Windows desktop search fails to search inside .SQL files
I've set the index options for the .SQL extension to use "Plain Text filter" with "Index Properties and File Contents" selected, and ensure that the directories containing the SQL files are in the ...
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How to search with Spotlight more effectively
I'm used to using various flags to modify the results of Google searches, to only show results from a particular site, or only certain kinds of files.
For example you can restrict Spotlight searches ...
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Why doesn't the Vista search show an executable in the results?
Possible Duplicate:
Add my applications to Vista’s Start Search.
I have an executable in the Downloads folder (baretail.exe), and the folder is indexed. If I click the Start menu and type the ...
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Full text Search of browser history, through the browser
Is there a browser that supports searching through the full text of the history pages' content ? Chrome and Firefox supports only searching the titles and URLs (with their omnibars).
I'm aware that ...
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Index a low-cost NAS on Windows 7
Has anyone found a way to index the files stored on a Networked Attached Storage on Windows 7 so that the files can be available in Windows Search and Libraries? I am referring to the cheap and ...
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Enhanced Explorer for Windows XP? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Replacement for Windows Explorer?
Is there a better explorer for Windows XP with Konqueror-like features (like dual panes), etc. Specially an enhanced integrated search ...
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KDE 4 find files/folders
For some reason, every time I press Ctrl+F in Dolphin or Konqueror, the "Find Files/Folders" dialog remembers "ruby1.9", which I entered in the filename field a long time back. Clearing it or using ...
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What's a good alternative to Windows' “Search for Files and Folders”?
The built-in Windows Search tool will apparently not search within PHP files. I cannot find the files named *.php containing text "some_function_name" that I know are there.
Search is complete. ...
