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Make windows 10 file search match whole filename instead of just beginning?
Is it possible to do document searches by whole filename from the Windows 10 Start menu, without having to open an app?
Up until Windows 8 this was possible and, through Classic Start Menu, remains ...
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How to stop Windows Search from auto excluding repository folders?
Windows search indexer is adding most paths to repository folders (both .git and .svn) to the exclusion list.
I can remove them manually of course, but each time i rebuild the index - they are re-...
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windows search service is not working well
first it was a driver index issue even when i click show all location,
driver cannot be found in indexed location
i tried to select new index location to be on the drive that was missing then the ...
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If 2 cells match then make another 2 cells match
I want to generate a special excel formula. My wish is to find out the last working day of each week. Thus, the formula is designed to analyze consecutive dates and find all Fridays, or, if there is ...
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Apache Nutch indexing error in Solr
Indexing 1000/1000 documents
Deleting 0 documents
Indexing 1000/1000 documents
Deleting 0 documents
Indexing job did not succeed, job status:FAILED, reason: NA
Indexer: java.lang.RuntimeException: ...
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Modifying Index Location is Disabled by a Policy
I have indexing setup on Windows 10 (build 18363.693) to include 4 different drives, and the index itself is stored on a separate drive.
I am attempting to set up the index to no longer be on this ...
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Windows 10 Search does NOT index Outlook 365 mails fully
I have around 400K (four hundred thousand) mails across all my folders in Outlook Mail IMAP profile stored in .ost file.
Initially, Windows 10 Search will NOT index these mails at all.
However, ...
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KRunner file search out of date, despite baloosearch giving correct results
When searching for files with KDE's KRunner, I am getting outdated results. Calling baloosearch directly gives the expected results, which is strange, since KRunner should be using just that.
For ...
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Troubleshoot bad search index (Windows 10)
I'm experiencing some really weird issues with the search index in Windows 10 and I'm not sure how to troubleshoot them.
This is a fresh install of Windows 10 Pro (build 18383.592, all updates ...
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How to Index My Desktop
I keep a bunch of files on my dekstop...word files and writings I'm working on at the time.
I would like to be able to search for a specific file that has some word written inside it...however, for ...
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Default way for index of files of external drive (Windows 10)
Is there a standard way to save an index of files that sit on an external drive in Windows 10?
The intention is not to do fast searches for files on that drive, but rather to have a list at any given ...
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Windows could not start the Windows Search service on Local Computer
I am trying to turn on Windows indexing service by following one of the answer in this question
I got this error message:
Windows could not start the Windows Search service on Local Computer.
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Windows Indexing is not working and I cannot turned it on. What should I do?
I try to search stuff in my computer. Indexing not working.
So I try to turn it on. I search for indexing options and this is what I see?
Included location is just empty.
What should I do?
It used ...
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Lookup Range based on multiple column and row critera
I have the lookup table below, where columns C through E are different places:
Below, I am trying to lookup the value based on the columnar and row criteria:
How can I find the value Orange, 2019, ...
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How to make Windows Indexing pause when the computer is in use?
I think some years ago Windows indexing service on my computer paused when the computer was in use. The Indexing Options window showed something like "Indexing paused" (or maybe "slowed down") "...
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Create an index with logstash with custom settings
I'm trying to create a new Elasticsearch (7.0.1) Index from Logstash (7.3.1), but it's not working when I put a template file with my settings (it worked pretty without my template setting).
My ...
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Using range lookup to return multiple values
I am using the formula below to lookup the value in cell $A$286 against the values in range $B$2:$Q$284. If there are any matches, I want to return the corresponding values in column $A$2:$A$284 in a ...
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Does Windows 10 search/indexing move files?
I was looking for a file in my Downloads folder (i.e. C:\Users\QM\Downloads) on my Win 10 Pro (build 1809) machine. I was unable to find it there even though I was near certain that's where it was.
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Index/Match function to return all values based on multiple criteria
I have an Excel document where I am trying to list all values that match three criteria.
Sheet1:
Year Player Pos Cluster
2018 Joe C 1
2018 Ken RW 2
2018 Bill C ...
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Drive not listed under Windows 10 Indexing Options and so, not selectable for indexing
So I have 3 drives in my PC: 1 system, 1 backup, and 1 storage.
I'm trying to add the contents of the storage drive to the Windows 10 indexing service.
When I go to Index Options, the drive is not ...
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Indexed db of Outlook 2013 elemets keeps being deleted randomly every couple days
I'm at the end with my wits. I have got a destop client where Outlook 2013 keeps deleting it indexed db every couple days randomly.
I set it up so that Windows keeps only indexing the .ost (It's an ...
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Solr indexing in Apache Nutch crawler
I am working with Apache Nutch crawler and followed guidelines mentioned in https://wiki.apache.org/nutch/NutchTutorial.
But when I am indexing, I got an error as followed.
Segment dir is complete: ...
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Browse contents of external disk while it is not connected
I want to index the contents of an external disk, so I can later browse it while it is not connected to my PC.
Is that possible? How?
I can index for searching it with, e.g., locate32 (outstanding!),...
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How to find MS-Word with Windows10 search functionality
Update
After trying most suggested things (except contacting Microsoft :D) I gave up, and at some point - months later - it suddenly started working but I could not figure out what caused it to work ...
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How to run DocFetcher as a background process
Can somebody help with running DocFetcher as a background process or windows service, so it can index files without logging in to a file server?
http://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/index.html
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How do I populate a column based on whether it matches another column or not?
Say I have the following table:
ID Item
1 Dog
2 Cat
3 Cat
4 Table
5 Dog
6 Chair
7 Lion
8 Lamp
9 Lion
10 Table
11 Chair
12 Lamp
Now, I want to add a third column for the ...
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Word - Create index that displays bullet number, not page number [closed]
I have a word doc with several hundred bullet numbers (one continuous list, let's say 1 - 300). Every time the word "medical" appears, I want to have that paragraph number displayed in an index. I ...
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How long would it take to index 30-40 GB of data in Outlook?
How long would it take to index of my 7 .pst files that total 30-40 GB data. The indexing has been running for the two days and has not stopped yet..
My PC an Intel i3, 8GB RAM, SSD.
I set up index ...
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Indexing a PostgreSQL query using a geometry field (gist) but it doesn’t seem to be working
I remembered to remove and recreate the index to eliminate the possibility that anything changed
gidrop index if exists incidents;
create index idx_geo on incidents using gist(geo);
Then this:
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Windows 10 Search & Indexing Not working
My search index on windows 10 does not work currently.
I have tried to go into the indexing settings but every time i go into indexing options it gets stuck on "Waiting to receive indexing status" ...
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My applications shortcuts aren't up to date in the start menu
I have an indexation issue with application shortcuts, some removed applications still appear while some installed are simply not in the start menu.
In the Indexation option window I have the start ...
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How to disable Suggested Folders on Windows 10?
Windows 10 scans the disk to find folders containing music, pictures or videos in order to generate a list of "suggested folders" for the Photos, Groove and Movies & TV apps. A quick internet ...
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anyway to make this code smaller?
I have created a formula which index matches from different work sheets and then adds them together.
Is there anyway possible to make the coding smaller or better?
I have tried and failed, but ...
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OneDrive Personal does not show up in Indexing Options after moving to C:/OneDrive in Windows 10
I moved the location of my OneDrive Personal folder from the user-specific folder to C drive.
However Windows 10 was not able to search in this folder, so I thought I would add the folder manually to ...
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What is the difference between modifying 'Indexing Option' and 'Allow files in this folder to have contents indexed in addition to file properties'
This article explains how to turn off the index(Link). I'm not interested in turning off the index, but I'm curious about 2 different options.
In "Turn Off Indexing Selectively" section from the ...
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Can you force windows (10) not to re-index?
My Windows 10 keeps reindexing every couple of days (from the very beginning) and I want to know if there is a way, once indexing is finished, I do not let it re-index.
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How can I index recycle bin?
How can I index recycle bin?
(There were so many instructions that I didn't ask and already know. So I edited everything out to focus on the subject.)
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How to find (unindexed) files in the current folder in Windows 10 File Explorer?
When in a folder in Windows 10, using the search panel to find files, one would expect an ad-hoc search of the file names in the current folder.
However, Windows only seems to find files that have ...
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Weird looking paths get added to Windows 10 search index and break search
I am using Windows 10 Pro (1709).
A few times in last weeks I have noticed that search from start menu wont find any files. Simply rebuilding the index did not fix this. Looking deeper into indexing ...
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Windows search service crashes on indexing
My issue is very similar to the one asked in that question: Windows Service SearchIndexer.exe Crashes on Indexing , however the asker there seems to have abandoned it, hence the repost by me.
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Windows 10 search bar searches only once
Good time of the day,
I'm facing really strange issue:
When system is booted, i can search for items
As soon as i close the search bar, and reopen it i cannot search anymore
When i restart the search ...
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Excel, if two columns match on different tabs, paste value from third column
I have two different tabs in excel. Tab1 has three columns (ID1, ID2, and Value). Tab2 has two columns (ID1, ID2), and I'm trying to write a function that will transfer "Value" from Tab1 into the ...
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How do I index the entire C: drive in Windows 7?
I figured out how to index my whole C: drive in Windows 10. It was easy. The new Windows Explorer is incredibly helpful.
One of my co-workers, who is still stuck on Windows 7, just asked ...
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How can I remove the Documents and Pictures folders from the Indexing options?
Is there a way to remove both Documents and Pictures folder from the Indexing options ?
When I select any folder but those two in the bottom part of the window, it automatically jumps to the folder ...
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Excel 2016: to find the first occurance of a value in a vector
I have a vertical vector (see below) and I am looking for a function where I can search for the first occurance of the "1" or a "2" or a "3". If I find the first "1" I would add a value to a cell and ...
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A faster way to search through files than grepping?
Is there a way to index a file or a file tree from the console so that searching for substrings can be done faster than plain grepping?
I don't necessarily need support for regular expressions, ...
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Index match return zero instead blanks
Greeting,
I am apply the following formula, the formula return blank cells as a number instead of returning as blank. Is there a way to fix this, so that it returns just a blank value?
In result ...
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What determines the size of the .ci and .edb files in the Windows indexer?
I noticed that the size of the .ci and .edb files in the Windows indexer are almost 30 GB:
What determines the size of the .ci and .edb files in the Windows indexer? I have around 4 million files, ...
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What makes a tar archive seekable?
It seems a tar archive being seekable can make a large difference when listing or extracting just a few files. Unfortunately the man page is really scarce on information. It seems that compressed ...
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How do I make windows 10's start menu search work like 7's?
In windows 10, I can't get the start menu's search to show a lot of files that I've recently opened or created (i.e. files on a drive other than the OS drive) when I type the first couple or few ...
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