Microsoft have made a change to the way in which the Search facility works in Windows XP compared to previous versions of Windows.
The Search option in previous versions of Windows (under Start => Find => Files Or Folders) treated all files as if they were plain text, and therefore would conscientiously chew through every file looking for the specified text. Under XP, the search (under Start =>Files => Search) will only look in file types registered as plain text types. This change, unfortunately, means that abc files (eg files stored with a .abc extension, such as woodenflute.abc) are not included by default in a plain text search - which in turn means that using the Search facility to find a tune title or fragment in your local abc files is no longer available as standard. (It is thought on the web that this change was made to stop the system wasting time scanning through huge binary sound and image files looking for the requested text, but that's just speculation in the absence of a definitive explanation from Microsoft.) However ... help is at hand! http://www.lesession.demon.co.uk/abc/Search_abc_XP.htm Any comments on the operability of the solution and my explanation of it would be most welcome, either here on abcusers or by private email. Can I propose that the inevitable, tedious and bandwidth-wasting My - OS - is - better - than - your -OS thread resulting from this issue should, however, be have follow-ups set to either Recycle Bin, Trash, or /dev/null depending on your OS of preference :-) Steve Mansfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lesession.demon.co.uk - abc music notation tutorial and other goodies To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
