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Originally Posted by toddos
You can still search by filename, extension, a ton of attributes, and even contents of various files.
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I have Vista. I hate the search function. I want to search by "word in filename + filetype"--I know a single keyword and I want the final PDF; I *don't* want results that include every tiff in the OCR folder and 235 jpgs of I-don't-even-know with 9-digit filenames.
I want to search by "phrase in file" + ".xls"; I can't do that with Vista. Or I want to search by ".xls files edited between Mar 2009 & Dec 2009." Can't do that with Vista either. Is it different with Windows 7? (I can't even figure out how to search by date range in Vista. Instead, it gives me results based on metadata from who knows where.) And the search doesn't stop when I tell it to, and is incredibly slow to sort by filename or filetype after it's run.
I *also* want to be able to switch between "search filenames only" and "search file contents" for a single search, not change the settings for all future searches every time I want to do one differently.
Vista's atrocious search function is the reason I'm looking into learning Ubuntu. I have 9gb in my "ebook projects" folder, which includes a lot of duplicate & semi-duplicate files (downloaded PDFs, convert to single-page tiffs, throw those into Finereader, export as searchable PDF, export with different resolution, export as Word, edit the Word file...) and I get tired of all of them turning up for every search.
The search function is obviously much more efficient, in terms of code, than XP's--but since it won't search by the categories I need, it works out to being annoyingly slower.