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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
If you know the original file extension, you can try using Everything to filter for all files of that type and see if you can track it down. |
That's for Windows. Also XP built in search worked absolutely fine with indexing disabled. The Windows 7 not quite as good and mysteriously Win10 by default wants Internet Access simply to do stuff on your own discs. Though even Windows 10 doesn't need either of those programs.
Since it was originally either a .mobi or a .epub, knowing the extension is useless.
I gave up on Windows over two years ago, after nearly 30 years. Doing IT support, selling and training. My Laptop runs
Linux Mint, Mate Desktop and a customised theme. It also has a search.
I think
DOS or Windows 3.11 was the last time I needed a 3rd party disc search tool.
Anyway, I remembered the source and solved the problem. It's an 1877 book on Gutenberg and both the mobi and the epub versions have spurious HTML links. Also some other mad formatting. Brushed up my CSS and fixed it.
Edit:
It was a mobi. An epub is really just a renamed zip file with specific contents, so indeed you can search epub files for a string.
Long ago, in about 2008, I'd rename Gutenberg files to be human readable. I don't now, so that I know if I already downloaded and added the file to Calibre. It was tiring back then reading ebooks on a laptop and awkward in bed, only warm place.