On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 10:41 -0500, Jim White wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: G. Roderick Singleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 9:39 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [users] Finding documents ? > > > > On Sun, 2006-05-14 at 08:50 -0400, Andrew Fisk wrote: > > > If Google Toolbar works for Windows users, and Mac users can use > > > Spotlight, I think that we are leaving the *nix users out > > in the cold > > > with the find, sed unzip option, but being wonderful thing > > that open > > > source is, google comes up with all kind of interesting > > looking tools > > > for indexing & searching documents -- all for free! > > > > > > As an alternative, and I know this may seem a little old fashioned, > > > but I have a folder for my customer info -- and a folder > > inside that > > > for each customer and then folders for each project -- it makes > > > finding things fairly easy and it's the one folder I KNOW > > is going to > > > be backed up. > > > > > > > Searching for the rest of us can be done within OOo for the most part: > > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/docsearcher/ > > http://www.darwinwars.com/lunatic/bugs/oo_macros.html > > http://www.danielnaber.de/loook/ > > > > Docsearcher is standalone and platform independent. For more > > use, google. I got Results 1 - 10 of about 111,000 for search > > tools for odt files?. (0.39 > > seconds) > > > > I'm no expert on desktop search tools, but I have used several for Windows, > including google and copernic, and Yahoo Desktop Search seems far better > than any other free one I've tried. With the optional extensions it > successfully and speedily searches within every kind of document I use, > including OOo, MSOffice and PDF. I haven't noticed its indexing to be a drag > on my computers, one of which is a PII 400. I highly recommend it. Does > anyone have any reason not to like it? Thanks. >
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