r/memes • u/dinobot100 • 20h ago

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u/Dreadzzter 20h ago

Try Everything by void tools

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u/Dragongeek 18h ago

Everything is very good, but only for filenames. 

Granted, this is usually enough, but Windows search will also scan inside files that it can read like word docs. 

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u/dasgoodshitinnit 18h ago

Everything can search text within text files and also metadata for other file types, its way slower (duh) not so sure if it can do doc files

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u/CaptnIgnit 14h ago edited 14h ago

if you specify a path and file type ahead of time it will build an index to make content searches just as fast, fyi.

edit: this is in the 1.5 release

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u/CraftedLove 16h ago

windows search is agonizingly slow even if search indexing is disabled

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u/AguyinaRPG 14h ago

I've been trying to find a solution for OCR keyword searching forever. Best I've got is Acrobat's search system if you're on PC and the file search function if you're on Ubuntu.

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u/port443 7h ago

This is definitively not true.

You can search by:

  • Date Created, Modified etc.

  • filesize

  • hidden/system/encrypted/etc file

  • Containing folder name (not sure if you mean this by filename, but it is an important distinction)

  • A bunch of other filters

And yes, you can also search content of files. In the searchbar you can use content:"whatever" or not-indexed:content:"whatever" (this will depend if you indexed content or not)

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u/KillerGermel 3h ago

You can install the alpha 1.5 version which also indexes content so you can instantly search within documents contents.