Re: searching files without extensions

[Bill Troop billtroop@xxxxxxxx]

Harry, ending with period doesn't work for me, at least not in Win7.
With the other issue, I'm assuming that higher-cost Win7 in XP mode
is the ticket for running XyWrite in Win7-64?

Many thanks !!!

At 12/3/2010 07:26 PM, you wrote:
> I don't know if it works in every case, but I have had success with
> ending with a period. E.g., FILENAME. where this not a sentence-ending period.
> > I have a huge backlog of XyWrite files without extensions. And I
> > foolishly go on creating new ones every day. Worse, I invent
> > extensions useful to me if not to operating systems, such as
> > ba0(-9), etc., for various backup drafts, etc. etc.
> > Is there a known, foolproof way to get Windows search to index
> > files without extensions? Or to get it to treat files with unknown
> > extensions as files that should be treated as text files and
> > indexed accordingly? I have tried, in the past, adding blank
> > extensions and it doesn't seem to work. Maybe there's something I'm
> > doing wrong? Or maybe it just can't be done?
> > Obviously, I don't have this problem with dtSearch, but I am not
> > using it on my main system at the moment, because I don't have the
> > disk capacity for its huge index, having recently 'gone over' to
> > SSD storage, which I find so much faster than a conventional hard
> > drive, not to mention quieter and cooler.
> > I'd like Windows search to be able to do a better job with my
> > XyWrite-created files. Is there anything I can do? Or should I just
> > go through and rename them all '.txt', which would solve the
> > problem in a trice?
> > Also, I have a new travelling system I am trying out, a Dell
> > Alienware m11x. This runs 64-bit Windows Home Premium. Apparently,
> > I have to upgrade to a higher level of Windows before I can run XP
> > under Win7 ? - - this in order to get XyWrite running on the
> > system. I have a DVD with a higher Windows 7 license, but . . . no
> > DVD ! Do I figure out a way around this (like an ISO file on a
> > memory stick) or is there some other way to get XyWrite running on
> > Windows Home Premium 64?
> >
> > Many thanks - - Bill
>
>
> Harry Binswanger
> hb@xxxxxxxx