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From: John Corliss on 24 Aug 2006 08:55
Mark Carter wrote:
> I've been trying our Copernic Desktop Search the last couple of days,
> and I think it's growing on me.
>
> From
> http://www.copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search/download.html
> (clipped)
>
> I had considered the Google alternative, but rejected it when I read
> that it had a phone-home feature.
>
> I've also tried Agent Ransack - which is good, but I think Copernic is
> better. It can produce results faster because it actually indexes the
> files. I have it tweaked so that it treats my lisp files as text files -
> so I can find documentation a bit easier.
>
> It got me thinking about some bloke was saying that directories was a
> bad way to store data, and that a better way would be based on sets. It
> seems that the whole file indexing thing is actually a realisation of
> that theory.
>
> Who knows, in the future, all files might actually be stored in just one
> directory, just like the FORTRAN programmers of old used to do ;)

Mark,
I certainly hope not. However, knowing Microsoft this will most
likely be the case, since they seem to be past the point of implementing
worthwhile improvements to the OS. New features that they come up with
are usually resource hogging, non-intuitive and major paradigm shifts.
Have always wondered why an indexing program is necessary. Never had
any trouble finding what I want simply because I organize my folders so
that this is easily done. As a result, actually having to do a search on
my hard drive is something that's not really needed that often.
The fact that most indexing programs continually thrash the hard
drive (and in some way, form or fashion are security problems) is
another turnoff for me. If my hard drive light is going, I want to know
why and that's impossible if it's always going. That's why XP's built in
indexing "feature" as well as WMI logging are turned off on my system.

--
Regards from John Corliss. I don't reply to trolls like Andy Mabbett.
No ad, cd, commercial, cripple, demo, nag, PROmotion, share, spy,
time-limited or trial wares or warez for me, please.
From: Franklin on 22 Sep 2006 16:58
On 23 Aug 2006, JP Loken <jp_lokennospam(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

> P? Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:58:00 +0200, skrev badgolferman
> <REMOVETHISbadgolferman(a)gmail.com>:
>
>> [...]
>
> The more you index, the bigger the index. I think that's the reason
> the desktop search programs has limited the number of file types.
> I've added extra file extensions in both Copernic and Windows
> Desktop Search, and it was no big deal.
>
> I've tried Blinx, Google, Windows and Copernic desktop search, and
> I prefer Copernic.
> It's fast and superior when it comes to finding information in
> large files. I also think its GUI is more effective and
> userfriendly.


You prefer Copernic to MSN Desktop Search? I run both but use Copernic
least.
From: Franklin on 22 Sep 2006 17:08
On 24 Aug 2006, Franklin <franksays(a)nomail.com> wrote:

> On 23 Aug 2006, JP Loken<jp_lokennospam(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> JH, 8/22/2006, 11:08:10 PM wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 18 Aug 2006 badgolferman wrote: snipped
>>>>

>>> I looked at the options and EXE is not one of the file types to
>>> index on, but shouldn't the program find it anyway? I don't
>>> think I should have to enter every known file type for Copernic
>>> to index on. It should automatically know what's on my computer.


>>
>> The more you index, the bigger the index. I think that's the
>> reason the desktop search programs has limited the number of file
>> types. I've added extra file extensions in both Copernic and
>> Windows Desktop Search, and it was no big deal.


>>
>> I've tried Blinx, Google, Windows and Copernic desktop search, and
>> I prefer Copernic. It's fast and superior when it comes to
>> finding information in large files. I also think its GUI is more
>> effective and userfriendly.
>>

>
> I prefer Yahoo desktop Search to all those. Just my 2 cents.
>

Got to say that I agree with you about Yahoo Desktop Search.

Although my YDS doesn't seem to manage to continuously follow system
changes. And it's a machine stopper when it goes to full screen.
Nor does it have a handy deskbar.

Despite all that, there is a lot to like.
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