Copernic Desktop Search and Word Perfect

[Wes]

I tried Copernic Desktop Search and it indexes many thousands of files
on my hard drive. I can search them all in a second. However, Word
Perfect are not indexed properly. For some reason, most, but not all
of my WordPerfect .wpd files are not indexed at all. I tried
everything, including completely reindexing several times. Same
problem on two different computers.

Copernic Desktop Search works great for pdf, doc, Excel, ppt files.

Its failure to index Word Perfect files is a major flaw that keeps it
from being very useful.

Wes

 

[Jonathan Aquino]

I tried Copernic Desktop Search and it indexes many thousands of files
on my hard drive. I can search them all in a second. However, Word
Perfect are not indexed properly. For some reason, most, but not all
of my WordPerfect .wpd files are not indexed at all. I tried
everything, including completely reindexing several times. Same
problem on two different computers.

Copernic Desktop Search works great for pdf, doc, Excel, ppt files.

Its failure to index Word Perfect files is a major flaw that keeps it
from being very useful.

Wes

Have you tried going into the options and adding .wpd to the list of
extensions to index?

I like Copernic Desktop Search for indexing my Outlook emails
(Outlook's search is sooo slow!).

 

[Sietse Fliege]

I tried Copernic Desktop Search and it indexes many thousands of files
on my hard drive. I can search them all in a second. However, Word
Perfect are not indexed properly. For some reason, most, but not all
of my WordPerfect .wpd files are not indexed at all. I tried
everything, including completely reindexing several times. Same
problem on two different computers.

Copernic Desktop Search works great for pdf, doc, Excel, ppt files.

Its failure to index Word Perfect files is a major flaw that keeps it
from being very useful.

I came across Filehand, a comparable program. http://www.filehand.com/
Requires Windows 2000 or XP and the .NET framework and is registerware.

But wait...

On their http://www.filehand.com/faq.htm I read:
(Q.) "My WordPerfect files are not showing up in the search results."
(A.) "Filehand search requires some additional software to work with
WordPerfect files. It's called an IFilter and is available from Corel,
the company that publishes WordPerfect. It was not included with all
versions of WordPerfect, so even if you have WordPerfect on your system
you may still need to obtain and install the WordPerfect IFilter.
The required files can be found on the Corel website."

They then describe how to get the WPIFilter files.
You may want to check out if this helps w.r.t. Copernic Desktop Search.

 

[Mario Alvares]

Hi Sietse ,

I came across Filehand, a comparable program. http://www.filehand.com/
Requires Windows 2000 or XP and the .NET framework and is registerware.

You might also want to try Locate32:
http://www.uku.fi/~jmhuttun/english/softwares.shtml

It indexed my entire hard drive in less than half (maybe less) the time
that FileHand took to index 2 folders !

And compared to FileHand this one works with Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP,
does not need the .NET framework, and is not registerware.

Be sure to download the latest version (2.98.4.9200, 20.9.2004). The
author's page lists the latest version as an alpha, but I've found it to
be very stable, not to mention the lightning - fast search. The only
thing lacking is some good documentation, but most of the basic options
are fairly self - explanatory, once you've covered the ReadMe.

Regards,
Mario

 

[Adrian Try]

Hi Mario

You might also want to try Locate32:
http://www.uku.fi/~jmhuttun/english/softwares.shtml

It indexed my entire hard drive in less than half (maybe less) the time
that FileHand took to index 2 folders !

I just downloaded Locate32, and it seems like a good and useful program.

But unlike Copernic and Filehand, it only seems to index the file names,
not contents. That is why it is so much faster.

Adrian

 

[Mario Alvares]

Hi Adrian,

I just downloaded Locate32, and it seems like a good and useful program.

But unlike Copernic and Filehand, it only seems to index the file
names, not contents. That is why it is so much faster.

Well, I think you're right. It does allow searching within file
contents, but the file contents are not indexed, just the file and
folder names.

Regards,
Mario

 

[Luigi M Bianchi]

Careful. Locate32, a great program, indexes file _names_ not file
contents.

/luigi

Hi Sietse ,



You might also want to try Locate32:
http://www.uku.fi/~jmhuttun/english/softwares.shtml

It indexed my entire hard drive in less than half (maybe less) the
time that FileHand took to index 2 folders !

And compared to FileHand this one works with Windows
98/ME/NT4/2000/XP, does not need the .NET framework, and is not
registerware.

Be sure to download the latest version (2.98.4.9200, 20.9.2004). The
author's page lists the latest version as an alpha, but I've found it
to be very stable, not to mention the lightning - fast search. The
only thing lacking is some good documentation, but most of the basic
options are fairly self - explanatory, once you've covered the ReadMe.

Regards,
Mario

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