re: Question about 'Get Find/Search to Look Where You Want'
Friday, June 11, 2004 at 11:41 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Marv
(2 messages posted)
There is a utility called ZTree which is a 32-bit resurrection of the venerable XTreeGold,
but written for windows. In fact, I have resorted to using it recently since my XP
search engine won't work. When I first got XP on my system, I noticed that the search
function would search for strings within the file name, rather than in the contents
of the file. Then, mysteriously, it corrected itself and searched within the files
for a couple of months. About a week ago, all on it's own, it decided to start searching
within the file NAME again. Any clue as to this behavior? I'm amazed that I do not
find it posted on this site, as every system I check does this (within as well as
outside the company).
On Sunday, December 8, 2002 at 3:01 pm, Brad Burg wrote:
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>I have a question about Get
>Find/Search to Look Where You Want:
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>
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>I spend a huge amount of time looking for the files I have to work on, on my hard
>drive--because the Microsoft built-in "search" function is both slow and clumsy.
>Isn't there a good utility that searches for files really rapidly? (If the whole
>internet can be searched in 2 seconds or so, why does searching my hard drive take
>so long?...I think it must be a bit smaller than the internet.)
>
>(FYI: I have an XP operating system on a Dell PC)
>
>I should explain the details:
>
>1. I have files mostly well-organized in folders. But I work on a lot of different
>projects, with hundreds (thousands? I dunno) of files. And even when I know where
>certain file are, by the time I "drill down" to find the ones I have to work on,
>it takes forever. I'm looking for a program to which I can say, for example, "find
>files with HISTORY in the name" -- and which will then find them all, fast. (i.e.,
>within 4 or 5 seconds.)
>
>(I know about "saving searches" and I've used that option, but I wind up with a
lot
>of saved searches, and then I spend time keeping track of those. So it's just more
>housekeeping. I want a utility that will just do any requested search, fast.)
>
>
>2. I also do have most of my files well-named for searching...if the search engine
>were just fast enough (the Microsoft one takes forever.)
>
>3. The utility I'm hoping to find would look through file names WITHOUT the need
>for indexing. That way, when I've just created a bunch of new files, they'll show
>up in a search immediately--which is what I need. And since I'd only be searching
>file names (most of the time) and not text, that search should be very fast.
>
>(More on indexing: Because my files are mostly named with a search in mind, ass
in
>point #2, I don't really need to search for (or through) the text WITHIN files very
>often. That's why I can generally avoid using a program that depends on indexing.
>Of course, if I find one I like, I'd run it every few days, I suppose. But I definitely
>and continually need the other kind of file search, all day long).
>
>Can I be the only person around who needs to search for file names often? That seems
>impossible...so then there must be such a utility... no?
>
>Help!
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