[AccessD] Slightly OT: MSN desktop Search for MDB's

MartyConnelly martyconnelly at shaw.ca
Tue Sep 13 13:47:04 CDT 2005


I use Google Desktop, maybe someone will write a plugin to search mdb's
Maybe there is something similar for below method in MSN

I am not using latest version of GDSE.

but in the search bar type in
 filetype:mdb
which will give me a couple of thousand mdb's in under 5 seconds

or say for string in file name

hyperlink filetype:mdb

It will search inside all your text files with something like

hyperlink filetype:txt

Just your web links

 hyperlink filetype:url


By the way using the GSDE you can call with API's from Access to get 
results returned in xml
still a few bugs tho, especially with international (non latin) encoding 
of xml.

Steve Conklin (Developer at UltraDNT) wrote:

>MSN Desktop Search is blazingly fast, but doesn't index MDB's.  It
>doesn't do Zip's either, but there are "iFilter" plug-ins downloadable
>for that.
>
>Any one know of similar for MDB's? I don't even need the content
>indexed, like it does for Word, Excel, etc; I just want the Access file
>names searchable ...
>
>Any help out there?
>
>Tia,
>Steve
>
>
>  
>

-- 
Marty Connelly
Victoria, B.C.
Canada






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