Desktop search

下載 Google 桌面搜索(EN, 简体) - 多文件的內文搜尋

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Limit of Google desktop search (GDS)

• only index the first 10,000 words not full text, see Help Center

ReIndex for GDS

(GDS v4 has the ReIndex function.)

• ReIndex for Google Desktop Search: command-line形式，可以放在排程，變成自動更新索引

• Google Desktop Search Plug-ins: TweakGDS: 手動/自動 更新索引，須先安裝 .NET Framework。

ex1: C:\tweakgds\TweakGDS.exe "C:\Documents and Settings\[UserName]\My Documents"
只針對[我的文件]更新索引

ex2: C:\tweakgds\TweakGDS.exe /complete "C:\Documents and Settings\[UserName]\My Documents"
只針對[我的文件]更新索引，並刪除cache

GDS as service (背景服務)

• 將C:\PROGRA~1\Google\GOOGLE~1\GoogleDesktop.exe /startup 放在排程(在系統啟動時執行)

即 C:\Program Files\Google\Google Desktop Search\GoogleDesktop.exe /startup

Index files of Google Desktop Search (索引檔大小)

C:\Documents and Settings\account name\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Desktop Search

number of items (saw from status) & how much capacity of HD that index files use?

• 14k(include 6k emails) 80.6M (Aaron Wright)
• 16k 106M (Tech Guru)
• 30k(include 4k emails) 234M (me)
• 35k(include 18k emails) 217M (Fred Beiderbecke)
• 216k(include 36k emails) 2.3GB (Jan Haugland)

• Google Desktop... Uses 2.3GB of your drive? 2004-10-15

plugins

• Google Desktop Search: Download Plug-ins or at GDplugins.com

plugins

If you upgrade from GDS1.x to GDS 2 Beta, I recommend you reinstall GDS and its plugins to avoid the compatiability issues.

file indexing

• Active+ Software MIME Indexer 1.01 (*.EML)
• Larry's Any Text File Indexer 1.0
• Larry's Help File Indexer (*.CHM)
• OmniPage Search Indexer 1.0
• Halftone Search for Google Desktop 1.2.x (*.MHT, *.ZIP, *.RAR...) Note: Most plugins only index the file name of archive file (*.ZIP, *.RAR) not cache the content. (alternative: Airbear Software's IndexZip Plug-in - Indexes the names of files within JAR, RAR, and ZIP compressed archives.)

tweak

• TweakGDS 1.1

alternative desktop search software

full text and filename search

• Ava Find
• Copernic: Software to search, find, and manage information
• DocFetcher (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)
• Windows Desktop Home Page (formally known as MSN desktop search)
• Vista Glance
  • Windows Desktop Search Add-ins
  • Toolbar Help : List of searchable file types
• Yahoo! Desktop Search
• Openfind Enterprise Search 企業搜尋軟體 (30 days trial)

file name or folder name search

• Everything Search Engine(official wiki) 可當server
  • 如何讓 Everything 從遠端電腦搜尋下載本機檔案？並整合到 Firefox 搜尋列？ | 電腦玩物
  • Everything - 最快的檔名搜尋工具 @ Nelson 不知不覺升上國二了
• Locate32: 搜尋範圍(1)資料夾名稱 與 (2)檔案名稱

futher reading

• Chin-Hsi Lin (2010). 研究生2.0: 新年新希望：不再找不到檔案了！