[AccessD] Constant copy interruptions

Sounds like something I should install on every machine I look at but it is not always an option to install applications on someone else's machine and then teach them to use.  Really a customizable and configurable file search facility is something that should be native to every OS, complete with a keyboard friendly GUI.  I have an iMac at home and it's tougher to put anything where you might want it or find it afterwards.  At work, the parent company is using Sharepoint and everything is stored as BLOBs in SQL Server and it is much harder to find anything because of how their system works.  Fortunately they've begun to see the light and will be moving files back to the file system like our division has been doing.  I generally put things where I want them on my own Windows machines so finding files is not much of a problem.  I've built a photo attribute mdb for work photos that lets me find photos on any number of parameters I choose to flag and may expand it to work with more types of files.  At home I've been using one for movies that allows me to search by Actor, Director, multiple Genre, Year, Music, Writer, IMDB rating, my rating, Rotten Tomatoes, audio/video quality, sub titles ...  Something just a bit more helpful than a file name, date or size.  I'll may roll my own file indexing system by expanding on what I've already done should the need ever arise.  The problem remains that it's not something I'm going to put on every machine I may work on.

Ciao
Jürgen Welz
Edmonton, Alberta
jwelz at hotmail.com


 
> From: stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 08:19:25 +1000
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Constant copy interruptions
> 
> I've started using Everything from http://www.voidtools.com/
> 
> A really great tool. It built it's initial database of my 400GB of files spread over two volumes in 
> just a few seconds and since then sits unobtrusively in the background. If I want to find 
> anything now, I just pop Everything up as start typing part of the file name, including wild 
> cards if I want and the displayed list of files/folders instantly changes to match my 
> specification. Double click on an item to open it, right click gives you the full Explorere 
> contect menu. It's brilliant.
> 
> In this case, we do have a GUI tool which is easier to use than CLI. JC will love it :-)
> 
> -- 
> Stuart
> 
> On 1 Nov 2010 at 13:07, Jurgen Welz wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I've recently tried to find some files on someone's Windows 7 machine.
> > All I wanted to do was find some AVI 'help' files the user had
> > dropped in a non standard location. I thought I checked all the
> > options possible for finding these files including system and hidden
> > files and all the locations existing as options. Never found a single
> > file. Somehow the OS knew that AVI files should only be found in 'My
> > Documents' or 'Documents' or whatever they've renamed it to now. 
> > Windows wouldn't tell me where it decided to search or even search the
> > additional locations I specified.
> > 
> > Run cmd
> > cd \
> > dir *.avi/s
> > 
> > 40 odd files found including the ones I wanted.
> > 
> > In Win 98 and XP, you could still find your files somewhat efficiently
> > but all bets are off with Vista and 7. I was accustomed to punching
> > the start button and hitting 'f f' for find files. This even worked
> > in XP after they renamed it Search. Now they confuse files with
> > applications, take many times as long, lost the explorer right click
> > search that worked with a simple keyboard shortcut. Windows file
> > search is now complete shit.
> > 
> > Robocopy is great and sometimes the command line is as necessary and
> > fundamental as breathing because there are times when no usable
> > alternative exists. The command line is aptly named; it doesn't make
> > suggestions, it issues commands.
> > 
> > Ciao
> > Jürgen Welz
> > Edmonton, Alberta
> > jwelz at hotmail.com