Search Companion Not working

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David Vasquez

I had this same problem with a previous XP Pro laptop I
had and would like someone to give me a replacement
program which will work or a solution. I have a word in
some program source that is basically a Text file. I
search the word on my XP machine and it finds nothing. I
go to my 2000 server and do the same search and it finds
it. I have a 2003 server and do the same search and it
doesn't work. It appears that whatever the issue may be
they ported the problem over to 2003 server from XP or
vise versa.

As I mentioned this is not the first machine where this
has happened. Is there known bugs having search working
with other products? Mcafee virusscan and Pervasive's
database are loaded presently.

Does anyone know a utility program which will work? I
need a search that is going to work.
 
David said:
I had this same problem with a previous XP Pro laptop I
had and would like someone to give me a replacement
program which will work or a solution. I have a word in
some program source that is basically a Text file. I
search the word on my XP machine and it finds nothing. I
go to my 2000 server and do the same search and it finds
it. I have a 2003 server and do the same search and it
doesn't work. It appears that whatever the issue may be
they ported the problem over to 2003 server from XP or
vise versa.

As I mentioned this is not the first machine where this
has happened. Is there known bugs having search working
with other products? Mcafee virusscan and Pervasive's
database are loaded presently.

Does anyone know a utility program which will work? I
need a search that is going to work.
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Search companion has all sorts of idiosyncrasies. For one thing, it will
only search text content for file types it knows how to interpret
(although I think there is a way to change this behavior). If you search
for a string in a .TXT file, it will find it. If you search for the same
string in a .xyz file, it will not find it.

The other thing is that "use indexing service" does not work reliably
unless you enter the search term using the query language (e.g.,
@filename myfile), and enter it in the "a word or phrase in the file"
field even if you are searching for a file name. Then searches are
almost instantaneous, which can be really convenient.

The final thing is that search using indexing service does not display
results properly for files located on the desktop. It will find the
file, and say found 1 file, but there will be no entry in the list.

Gregg
 
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