Search not finding text in files

[dln]

Hey all. I've been going through this newsgroups looking for posts similar
to the problems I'm having with the XP file search utility in that if I
search for files containing a specific text string, the file is never found.
Based on what I have read, it would appear that this behavior has something
to do with the lack of a PersistentHandler value for the type of file. Fair
enough, but what can I do if the file doesn't have a file extension? For
example, I need to find a specific string in all files named "Root" (no
extension - just Root ... and I know there are at least a couple files by
that name with the string I'm looking for). Do I need to resort to a third
party search utility? Can someone please tell me how to get this to work -
this feature (or lack thereof) is something I sorely miss after
transitioning off of 2000 to XP.

Thanks!

 

[Guest]

Hello,

You can use method 2 from the below article to enable indexing of documents
with no extensions by telling the index server to "Index files with unknown
extensions"

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q309173

I tested it out and was able to toggle and find text within documents with
no extensions.

John Bukowski [MSFT]
Ecalation Engineer

 

[dln]

Hey that worked! Thanks a ton for the link.

Hello,

You can use method 2 from the below article to enable indexing of documents
with no extensions by telling the index server to "Index files with unknown
extensions"

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q309173

I tested it out and was able to toggle and find text within documents with
no extensions.

John Bukowski [MSFT]
Ecalation Engineer

Hey all. I've been going through this newsgroups looking for posts similar
to the problems I'm having with the XP file search utility in that if I
search for files containing a specific text string, the file is never found.
Based on what I have read, it would appear that this behavior has something
to do with the lack of a PersistentHandler value for the type of file. Fair
enough, but what can I do if the file doesn't have a file extension? For
example, I need to find a specific string in all files named "Root" (no
extension - just Root ... and I know there are at least a couple files by
that name with the string I'm looking for). Do I need to resort to a third
party search utility? Can someone please tell me how to get this to work -
this feature (or lack thereof) is something I sorely miss after
transitioning off of 2000 to XP.

Thanks!