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Total Commander is great on so many levels !
Peter Adam wrote: ALT+SHIFT+F7: independent search
 What is this ? Never came across. [Tried, but I see no difference with the normal search]
*mother of all facepalms* I installed the wrong version on my work computer, and have been using the ... 08/2012 release for several months now.  OK, got the trick with the new search, actually pretty excellent !!
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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ALT+F7: it blocks your Commander until the search ends
ALT+SHIFT+F7: search in a different, non-modal window. Useful, if you use the Allow only 1 copy of Total Commander at a time option. Only search in selected directories/files option is not available.
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Yep, see my edited answer above. I've cursed many times at the fact that the search window blocked the main window... If only I had looked at the updates more closely 
I have always wondered why windows would not natively go to a two-tree-visualization for its explorer. Once you have used one like Total commander, you cannot go back !
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Total commander has a wonderful search engine.
Did not see Peter Adam's post. Note for self : Refresh before answering a thread.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Agree with you. It is particularly frustrating when you know you have placed something in one of folders but cannot find it.
TOMZ_KV
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I use this little utility: http://www.indexyourfiles.com/
It's been around for years, it's fast and free.
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Everything is good.
http://www.voidtools.com/[^]
Indexes the HDD very fast and finds dlls and other files that are usually hidden.
It did stuff up on me once, but easily fixed, and it is easy to use and is as fast as.
A windows application that makes you wonder why windows search is such a slug. The best bit is that it does find everything.
I am pretty sure that I discovered Everything from the CP free tools page.
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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I use bash[^] as my daily driver shell on Windows (and on OS X when I'm using my own laptop), so I use find[^] to look for specifically named files. I use ag[^] to search for text in files - it's VERY fast... And of course, on OS X, I have Spotlight[^], which works better than any indexing system I've used on Windows.
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
CodeProject MVP for 2010 - who'd'a thunk it!
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Used an old version of Copernic Desktop Search -- loved it. Paid for an upgrade (Ha, ha!) to 4.X CDS. Received "benefit" of it being an incredible resource (and disk hog), having my old search patterns unsupported (e.g., "dir_getFiles" is always parsed by CDS as "dir" AND "getFiles"), long lag time on opening the search window before I can enter parameters.
The old CDS was a great way to find code snippets I vaguely remembered. The new CDS is marginally useful for that.
UltraFileSearch (http://www.ultrafilesearch.com/) works great for me, as does Windows Grep (http://www.wingrep.com/).
I will definitely try out Agent Ransack!
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I just use Cygwin grep. It doesn't skip files like MS's search does, it works recursively, and it doesn't require that a massive database be kept up to date all the time. Trouble is, it can only find strings of text and doesn't understand the formatting of the content -- it completely misses words that have formatting inserted in the middle of them. That limitation hasn't yet been a problem for me.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Take a look at findstr. It's a far more powerful search engine for the Windows command line. Another free search engine I use is Notepad++, which has a find in files feature and puts the results into an editor window that allows you to click to open the files.
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You want to try Voidtools Everything, free, portable and requires no indexing. People who say they remember where they put things instead of searching basically have not tried Everything yet. I am OCD about file organization and have no trouble recalling where I put things but if a simple and fast tool like Everything allows me to get to a file more quickly than endlessly clicking to the bottom of a deep directory structure, the search tool wins. In fact, Everything is not a file search tool at all, but rather a list of your files and folders which it then filters to display only matching files. It supports regex queries and it's great for performing batch operations e.g. delete all thumbs.db files on all drives in one go. PS Download latest beta, it's not been updated for moths but it's very stable.
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For discs or groups of directories where I have to search for stuff often, I use a "media cataloging tool" called Cathy (from here[^]), which I particularly like because (apart from its giving instant results) you can add multiple discs/dirs to its "catalog", and it searches all their content in one operation.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Personally, I’ve found the best tool for desktop search is Everything by David Carpenter. You can find it on the voidtools website. http://www.voidtools.com[^]
It’s excellent, has shortcuts for various types of searches, supports regex and is super fast, and extremely small and doesn’t try to sell you advertising.
Regards
Greg
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Justice or the law what is more important?
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Dredd is the Law![^]
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Why have I know got this ditty stuck in my head?
Dredd is the law and the law won, Dredd is the law and the law won...
What is done cannot be undone, arrrrrrrrr!
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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That guy that played Judge Dredd in that movie talks alot like the guy that plays McCoy in the last 2 Star Trek Movies.
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As both is human decision, both sucks...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: As both is human decision, both sucks...
Amen!
Marc
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They both go hand in hand.
BTW justice is - conformity to the law; legal validity. Without law, there is no justice 
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