Desktop search: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 19:23, 3 July 2012

List of desktop search software

電腦的多個檔案的內文搜尋

Copernic: Software to search, find, and manage information v.3.5.1
- range: folders and file types you specified
- refine the search: file name, file type, file size, date, folder. Quotation marks is available. More on Refine a search with operators
- comment: Nice for search PHP scripts
Ava Find
- range: drive not specific folder
DocFetcher ver. 1.1 beta 6 (經常找不到文件嗎？試試免費的跨平台桌面搜尋工具：DocFetcher | 簡睿隨筆@新世界)
- range: folders and files type you specified
- 搜尋: 支援輸入部分字串
- comment: not suitable for search PHP scripts
Windows Desktop Home Page (formerly known as MSN desktop search)
Vista Glance
- Windows Desktop Search Add-ins
- Toolbar Help : List of searchable file types
X1® Professional Client(formerly Yahoo! Desktop Search)
$ Examine32 Text Search(30 days trial)
$ Openfind Enterprise Search 企業搜尋軟體 (30 days trial)
Google 桌面搜索 archive of old version: Download Google Desktop 5.9.1005.12335 - FileHippo.com. Not available to download from official website
Zotero v.3 for Firefox
- 搜尋: 儲存在Zotero資料庫的文獻書目、標籤、附檔檔名、附檔(PDF或HTML網頁檔)內文^[1]

Windows Grep: Grep for Windows v.2.3
- file size: (1) > 90 MB: ok; (2) > 200MB: ok
- Regular expression: supported

grepWin v1.5.6.x
- file size: (1) > 90 MB: ok; (2) > 200MB: ok;
- Regular expression: supported
- comment: If there are too many matches, the software will be frozen and get back after some minutes.

Notepad++ v5.9.8^[2]
- file size: (1) > 90 MB: ok; (2) > 200MB: not ok (file is too big to be opened by Notepad++)
- Regular expression: supported

Where Is It? - "Catalog your media collection, use descriptions, thumbnails and categories, find files or disks you need"
- 其他: 無法將「網路磁碟」納入索引範圍

quick file search filter under a folder: file name or folder name

quick file search filter: file name only

Press Alt + Space to search and launch the file Launchy: The Open Source Keystroke Launcher. Require index the files first. [Last visited: 2012-02-07]

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 * {{Gd}} [http://www.copernic.com/ Copernic: Software to search, find, and manage information] v.3.5.1
 ** range: folders and file types you specified
-** narrow the search: Quotation marks more on [http://help.copernic.com/topic/desktopsearch21en/use/search/boolean.htm Refine a search with operators]
+** refine the search: file name, file type, file size, date, folder. '''Quotation marks''' is available. More on [http://help.copernic.com/topic/desktopsearch21en/use/search/boolean.htm Refine a search with operators]
 ** comment: Nice for search PHP scripts {{Gd}}
 * [http://www.think-less-do-more.com/avafind/ Ava Find]