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re: Question about 'Get Find/Search to Look Where You Want'
Thursday, April 7, 2005 at 2:18 am
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Posted by Ronnie Guthrie (1 messages posted)

I found the utility 'Agent Ransack' does exactly what you want. ie. when I specify to search ALL folders - it does exactly that

On Friday, June 11, 2004 at 11:41 am, Marv wrote:
>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).
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Written in response to:: re: Question about 'Get Find/Search to Look Where You Want' (Marv: Friday, June 11, 2004 at 11:41 am)

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re: Question about 'Get Find/Search to Look Where You Want' (Marv: Thursday, April 7, 2005 at 12:03 pm)

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Question about 'Get Find/Search to Look Where You Want' (Brad Burg: Sun, Dec 8, 2002, 3:01 pm)

re: Question about 'Get Find/Search to Look Where You Want' (Tom Swanson: Sun, Dec 8, 2002, 7:06 pm)

re: Question about 'Get Find/Search to Look Where You Want' (Ricer46: Mon, Dec 9, 2002, 7:39 am)

re: Question about 'Get Find/Search to Look Where You Want' (Brad Burg: Mon, Dec 9, 2002, 10:17 am)

re: Question about 'Get Find/Search to Look Where You Want' (John Miller: Fri, May 2, 2003, 11:36 am)

re: Question about 'Get Find/Search to Look Where You Want' (Balu: Mon, May 12, 2003, 4:04 pm)

re: Question about 'Get Find/Search to Look Where You Want' (jesse medina: Thu, Jun 12, 2003, 11:37 am)

re: Question about 'Get Find/Search to Look Where You Want' (Marv: Fri, Jun 11, 2004, 11:41 am)

re: Question about 'Get Find/Search to Look Where You Want' (Ronnie Guthrie: Thu, Apr 7, 2005, 2:18 am)

re: Question about 'Get Find/Search to Look Where You Want' (Marv: Thu, Apr 7, 2005, 12:03 pm)

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