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

Steve Conklin (Developer@UltraDNT) Developer at UltraDNT.com
Thu Sep 15 08:11:56 CDT 2005


Well, if anyone cares, deep in the Advanced Options of MSN's indexing,
there is a list of extensions *not* indexed.  Taking "mdb" out of this
got it to index the mdb's.

Steve


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Conklin
(Developer at UltraDNT)
Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 5:18 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Slightly OT: MSN desktop Search for MDB's


Thanks, Marty.
Well, Google won't run for some reason on my testing PC, but I just saw
an article in PC World reviewing the latest crop of search apps.  Right
now I am testing Copernic, a freebie that lets you just add file
extensions to its index - if it doesn't know what it is, it just indexes
the file names.

Steve


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of MartyConnelly
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2005 2:47 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Slightly OT: MSN desktop Search for MDB's


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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