WinXP find does not find...

[Guest]

Hi!

I have encountered a strange problem with Windows XP find and deciced to ask
if someone another has also seen this problem. Here are steps to reproduce it:

1) Create .java file with notepad or some other plain text editor and write
something into that file - for example "cat".
2) Press ctrl-f in Windows Explorer (or choose start->search) and try to
search *.java files containing that text you wrote at step one.
3) Start to wonder why on earth that find does not find that file that you
just created.

What could cause this problem?
Does the Windows skip all .java files because "they are not text files" and
therefore that file is not found? And if this is the case, how can I change
that?

Btw, this behauvior seems to happen only with WinXP.
Win98SE and Win2000Pro does not have this problem.

 

[Detlev Dreyer]

What could cause this problem?
Does the Windows skip all .java files because "they are not text
files" and therefore that file is not found?

Using the "A word or phrase in the file" search criterion may not work
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309173/en-us

"Content Search Does Not Search All File Types for the Specified String"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309447/en-us

And if this is the case, how can I change that?

You may want to use "Agent Ransack" on WinXP systems instead:
http://www.agentransack.com/default.aspx

 

[David Candy]

XP has smart searching. Jave is set to be searched as a binary file, which means only it's name and properties are searched. Users NEVER look in Java files. So if a user is searching it's stupid to show totally irrelevent hits.

Look at .txt files in the registry and graft the persistant handler to ..java.