Gina Hoopes
hoopesg at hotmail.com
Mon Dec 12 13:17:45 CST 2005
Gustav, Perhaps the title "Desktop" Search is a bit misleading. I use Google's Desktop Search and I, like you, have almost all of my files stored on several network servers within our department. The search results find not only files stored on any of my mapped drives but also all of my emails, which are stored on a server completely outside the control of our department. There are about 15 email servers to accommodate the 10,000 people where we work, and on any given day you might be switched from mail server 5 to mail server 12. On top of that, they have an archiving system that leaves only a reference in our Outlook Inbox to anything over 90 days old and the search results include those, too. My searches never take more than about 3 seconds and return results from all of my files and emails, no matter where they're stored. I wouldn't want you to think that the searching was limited to your hard drive just because the title of the tool seems to imply that. Gina -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 12:38 PM To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Windows Explorer Find replacement Hi Marty I had only filename-search in mind but maybe I should give this a thought. Problem is that 99% of my material is stored on corporate servers ... /gustav