mozilla-lists.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote, On 14/09/2014 15:34:
Daniel wrote:
When I talk of doing a search in Win7, I mean entering the search string
in the Search file just above the Windows Start button in the bottom
left of the desktop!!
Am I wasting my time??
I'm not certain, but I think that only searches for installed programs
under "All Programs" on the Start menu, and for files in your
Documents, Pictures, Music, etc. folders. I'm not sure if it includes
AppData, or other locations. From a quick try on Windows Vista it
appears not.
On Windows Vista, when you start typing in that search box a couple of
other options appear above it to "Search Everywhere" or "Search the
Internet". Microsoft's definition of "everywhere" doesn't seem to
match mine though, as "Search Everywhere" only searches under my
Windows profile folder (under C:\Users\Mark\), and doesn't even seem
to include everything there! If I click Start, enter
"name:mimetypes.rdf" in the search box, and click "Search Everywhere",
it searches in C:\Users\Mark\ but doesn't find anything. If I open an
Explorer window, navigate to C:\Users\Mark\ and enter
"name:mimetypes.rdf" in the search box there, it does find that file
(this may be dependent on having hidden files made visible, as Paul
mentioned).
(As an aside, prefixing the search term with "name:" restricts the
search to files and folders whose name matches the search term, and
does not search in the contents of files, so may be faster if you just
want to find files with a particular name.)
Lee mentioned a tick box under the advanced search options (from
Explorer, click Search Tools > Search Pane, then "Advanced Search" in
the new bar which appears) to "Include non-indexed, hidden, and system
files". There are also more options under Search Tools > Search
Options. So there's a few more somewhat hidden options which may
affect what's actually searched! Individual folders can be included or
excluded from the search index, which may or may not prevent them from
being searched at all depending on those other options.
All in all, personally I don't trust Windows Explorer's file search to
look everywhere. Too many options in too many different places, and
you can even select folders to include or exclude from the search
index. If it doesn't find a file I'm expecting to find, rather than
assuming it doesn't exist I tend to fall back to the command prompt as
Lee suggested.
All the above is on Windows Vista. There's probably a different set of
complications on Windows 7!
Mark.
In Windows 7 i just press the "Special Windows" key together with the
key "E" this action starts the EXPLORER where after selecting the "C:"
or better
C:\users\<your-windows-login-name>\appdata\roaming\mozilla\seamonkey\profiles
you can search by typing mimeTypes.rdf in the little box at upper right
side. Notice that this search IS very long and is finished when your
mouse cursor when the mouse is over the right pane switches from a
sandbox to a normal cursor..
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