Search Companion Not working

[Guest]

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I had this same problem with a previous XP Pro laptop I
had and would like someone to give me a replacement
program which will work or a solution. I have a word in
some program source that is basically a Text file. I
search the word on my XP machine and it finds nothing. I
go to my 2000 server and do the same search and it finds
it. I have a 2003 server and do the same search and it
doesn't work. It appears that whatever the issue may be
they ported the problem over to 2003 server from XP or
vise versa.

As I mentioned this is not the first machine where this
has happened. Is there known bugs having search working
with other products? Mcafee virusscan and Pervasive's
database are loaded presently.

Does anyone know a utility program which will work? I
need a search that is going to work.

 

[Guest]

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[[Agent Ransack is a free tool for finding files and information on your
hard drive fast and efficiently. When searching the contents of files Agent
Ransack displays the text found so you can quickly browse the results
without having to separately open each file!]]
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/download.aspx

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Hope this helps. Let us know.
Wes

In news:125f01c4a24c$9f488240$7d02280a@phx.gbl,
David Vasquez <davevasquez@comcast.net> hunted and pecked:
> I had this same problem with a previous XP Pro laptop I
> had and would like someone to give me a replacement
> program which will work or a solution. I have a word in
> some program source that is basically a Text file. I
> search the word on my XP machine and it finds nothing. I
> go to my 2000 server and do the same search and it finds
> it. I have a 2003 server and do the same search and it
> doesn't work. It appears that whatever the issue may be
> they ported the problem over to 2003 server from XP or
> vise versa.
>
> As I mentioned this is not the first machine where this
> has happened. Is there known bugs having search working
> with other products? Mcafee virusscan and Pervasive's
> database are loaded presently.
>
> Does anyone know a utility program which will work? I
> need a search that is going to work.

 

[gregg]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?)

David Vasquez wrote:
> I had this same problem with a previous XP Pro laptop I
> had and would like someone to give me a replacement
> program which will work or a solution. I have a word in
> some program source that is basically a Text file. I
> search the word on my XP machine and it finds nothing. I
> go to my 2000 server and do the same search and it finds
> it. I have a 2003 server and do the same search and it
> doesn't work. It appears that whatever the issue may be
> they ported the problem over to 2003 server from XP or
> vise versa.
>
> As I mentioned this is not the first machine where this
> has happened. Is there known bugs having search working
> with other products? Mcafee virusscan and Pervasive's
> database are loaded presently.
>
> Does anyone know a utility program which will work? I
> need a search that is going to work.

Search companion has all sorts of idiosyncrasies. For one thing, it will
only search text content for file types it knows how to interpret
(although I think there is a way to change this behavior). If you search
for a string in a .TXT file, it will find it. If you search for the same
string in a .xyz file, it will not find it.

The other thing is that "use indexing service" does not work reliably
unless you enter the search term using the query language (e.g.,
@filename myfile), and enter it in the "a word or phrase in the file"
field even if you are searching for a file name. Then searches are
almost instantaneous, which can be really convenient.

The final thing is that search using indexing service does not display
results properly for files located on the desktop. It will find the
file, and say found 1 file, but there will be no entry in the list.

Gregg

 

[Guest]

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Thanks for your comments. I just tested at another site
and had the same issue. I mentioned previously that this
was not an issue before XP. On a 2000 server it worked
fine.

It is such a basic component that you would hope they
could at least get this right.


>-----Original Message-----
>David Vasquez wrote:
>> I had this same problem with a previous XP Pro laptop
I
>> had and would like someone to give me a replacement
>> program which will work or a solution. I have a word
in
>> some program source that is basically a Text file. I
>> search the word on my XP machine and it finds nothing.
I
>> go to my 2000 server and do the same search and it
finds
>> it. I have a 2003 server and do the same search and it
>> doesn't work. It appears that whatever the issue may
be
>> they ported the problem over to 2003 server from XP or
>> vise versa.
>>
>> As I mentioned this is not the first machine where
this
>> has happened. Is there known bugs having search
working
>> with other products? Mcafee virusscan and Pervasive's
>> database are loaded presently.
>>
>> Does anyone know a utility program which will work? I
>> need a search that is going to work.
>
>Search companion has all sorts of idiosyncrasies. For
one thing, it will
>only search text content for file types it knows how to
interpret
>(although I think there is a way to change this
behavior). If you search
>for a string in a .TXT file, it will find it. If you
search for the same
>string in a .xyz file, it will not find it.
>
>The other thing is that "use indexing service" does not
work reliably
>unless you enter the search term using the query
language (e.g.,
>@filename myfile), and enter it in the "a word or phrase
in the file"
>field even if you are searching for a file name. Then
searches are
>almost instantaneous, which can be really convenient.
>
>The final thing is that search using indexing service
does not display
>results properly for files located on the desktop. It
will find the
>file, and say found 1 file, but there will be no entry
in the list.
>
>Gregg
>.
>