Windows 2000 file search fails

[heruti]

Greetings readers,


I have the following issue,

Win2k SP4 "search for files or folders" stopped searching
inside folders, even though the "search subfolders" option is enabled
(in fact I can't really disabled it since it automatically re-enables
itself the next time I open a search)

From what I can see, search for files now looks only in the Root c:\

dir and inside "Documents and Settings" (i.e. my documents etc) - it
ignores all other disk folders, and I can also see this from the names
of folders searched that briefly flashes on the bottom line when I
start a search. It only searches in folders if I explicitly direct it
(with "browse" option") to search in a specific folder.

I tried to enable and disable the indexing service (it has always been
disabled on my pc) but didn't fix it.

I also tried defrag, chkdsk /r, abd using a third party utility like
ransack search agent- it works perfectly, so I don't think its a disk
or network problem. Always logged in admin account. permissions are set
to read the entire drive.

by the way, when searching this machine from another machine on a
network, the other machine also searches only the above directories
(not the entire disk) unless using a third party utility. But the
other machine searches properly its own drive.


thanks

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Greetings readers,


I have the following issue,

Win2k SP4 "search for files or folders" stopped searching
inside folders, even though the "search subfolders" option is enabled
(in fact I can't really disabled it since it automatically re-enables
itself the next time I open a search)

dir and inside "Documents and Settings" (i.e. my documents etc) - it
ignores all other disk folders, and I can also see this from the names
of folders searched that briefly flashes on the bottom line when I
start a search. It only searches in folders if I explicitly direct it
(with "browse" option") to search in a specific folder.

I tried to enable and disable the indexing service (it has always been
disabled on my pc) but didn't fix it.

I also tried defrag, chkdsk /r, abd using a third party utility like
ransack search agent- it works perfectly, so I don't think its a disk
or network problem. Always logged in admin account. permissions are set
to read the entire drive.

by the way, when searching this machine from another machine on a
network, the other machine also searches only the above directories
(not the entire disk) unless using a third party utility. But the
other machine searches properly its own drive.


thanks

I don't have a direct answer to your question but I suggest
you have a look at Copernic Desktop Search (http://www.copernic.com/).
It is a free search engine that indexes all selected file types
automatically in the background and shows them listed in
date order.

Even better: It also indexes all Outlook 2000 (and later
versions) items! I can't understand why Copernic is free -
they have no ads to bother you!