Re: file searching

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Bill Troop wrote:
> The problem comes now, all these years and GB of data later, when I need
> to be able to search these files.
> None of the file indexing solutions (Spotlight on Mac, Windows search,
> Google) seems to be able to deal with files with unknown or improper
> extensions.
Unless these files are scattered all over C: (a bad idea), or are
in other formats (but I'm assuming you mean Xy data files), why
not either Xy's native SEarch command or--much, much better--the
UE SE and SSE commands? SSE sometimes locked up under 98 when
searching a really large directory with lots of subdirs, but
hasn't so far (knock wood) under Vista.
Recall too what I proved here a while back: the NT (W2K, XP,
Vista) Search routine simply does NOT find all the files that
match the spec, whereas 9x's Find did. It also, IMO, had a much
better UI: I detest having to scroll right and left, but at the
res and font size I have to run at, everything doesn't fit on the
Search screen. In 9x's Find, you entered your specs on top, and
got your results below. Much more sensible.

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Patricia M. Godfrey
priscamg@xxxxxxxx