search tool - not Ransack

[mike ring]

Hello all


Some time ago there was a thread about a search tool, which implied Ransack
was a bit of a memory hog, and suggesting a better tool.

"Ho, hum" thinks me, "Ransack works for me"

Well, I just ran a big search (for my N.I.N details), which got lost in
Thunderbird's shenanigans, and watched me Rampage readout wind quickly down
from 350 to 1meg.

The box didn't crash - one up for Rampage - but took ages to struggle out
of it.

So public apology, and could you remind me of the other search engine that
was mentioned?

mike

 

[Mike Andrade]

Hello all


Some time ago there was a thread about a search tool, which
implied Ransack was a bit of a memory hog, and suggesting a better
tool.

"Ho, hum" thinks me, "Ransack works for me"

Well, I just ran a big search (for my N.I.N details), which got
lost in Thunderbird's shenanigans, and watched me Rampage readout
wind quickly down from 350 to 1meg.

The box didn't crash - one up for Rampage - but took ages to
struggle out of it.

So public apology, and could you remind me of the other search
engine that was mentioned?

Inforapid search and replace.
http://www.inforapid.de/html/searchreplace.htm

 

[mike ring]

Inforapid search and replace.
http://www.inforapid.de/html/searchreplace.htm

Thanks a lot Mike, I'll check it out.

Coincidentally, I think forfun, a couple of posts down, mentioned Copernic
Desktop search, which IIRC was the one thy were raving about, so I'll try
that too

mike

 

[LB]

Inforapid search and replace.
http://www.inforapid.de/html/searchreplace.htm

Nice sig! Original or what?

LB

 

[Mike Andrade]

Mike Andrade wrote:


Nice sig! Original or what?

http://www.ebji.org/akeem/cookiemaster.html

I collect quotes whenever and wherever I find them. Cannot remember
whence the above came.

 

[mike ring]

Thanks for your help, Mike.

Copernic was a real stumer, like a sort of Msoft "my email" "my music"
whatever, and a very strange tool which put a search bar on my systray, and
required file extensions input - a bit daft if the string you need might be
any where.

Also it wouldn't uninstall - I had to rip it out by the roots.

But Inforapid looks really good; just to check I asked the same silly
question as Ransack, and it dealt with it quite well, but when I finally
got the results I could see why it had crashed Ransack. My fault really, I
should have taken smaller bytes... ;-)

But inforapid is AFACS an excellent prog - thanks

mike

 

[jmatt]

More here Mike

XP Search replacement > Find.zip
http://www.shellfront.org/utils/

Ava Find
http://www.think-less-do-more.com/avafind/
http://download.com.com/3001-2248-10201203.html

Wilbur
http://wilbur.redtree.com/

Looker
http://www.webgrid.co.uk/audiovideo.html
http://www.netdevel.net.nz/index.php?mod1=netdevel/software

File Hunter
http://digilander.libero.it/zancart/
http://digilander.libero.it/zancart/filehunter/odyframe.htm

LookDisk
http://www.nonags.com/nonags/filesearch.html
http://www.fxsearch.com/ldw_eng/

Search
http://steveseymour.0catch.com/

pilif.ch - a cuwps
http://www.pilif.ch/stuff/pershchg/

Xteq X-Find
http://www.xteq.com/products/xfnd/

LookDisk
http://www.nonags.com/nonags/filesearch.html
http://www.fxsearch.com/ldw_eng/

Snowbird
http://www.geocities.com/casablanca2000in/msp/
http://www.freewarearena.com/html/index.php?name=Downloads&d_op=search

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[Donald Lessau]

Not to forget TrackerV3: http://www.trackerv3.com/

Don