[dba-Tech] Windows XP Search

Add this GDS Plugin Larry's Any Text File Indexer, it lets you specify 
extensions to search
There are a couple of dozen of these plugins for various file types
http://desktop.google.com/plugins/indexitall.html
or
http://www.trivex.net/

Download Plug-ins
http://desktop.google.com/plugins.html

 
You might want to check here how to do reindexing without a reinstall
http://users.tns.net/~skingery/firefox/GDS_Tips.html#thirdtools

Also GDS only indexes the first 5000 words in a text file less on some 
other file types

By the way I have an access mdb that takes GDS and puts it output into 
an xml file
It is just an xmlhttp of a localhost url after you lookup the license 
key in the registry
sort of
'http://localhost:4664/search&s=1ftR7c_hVZKYvuYS-RWnFHk91Z0?q=Google+myoddtext&format=xml

but I have found a bug in the output UTF-8 xml. The xml GDS generates 
doesn't properly encoded
some odd MS Windows typographical characters like TM trademark which 
screws up MS xml parsers
I still have to write some workarounds.



Steve Erbach wrote:

>Dear Group,
>
>Had an odd thing happen today. I've been working on learning ASP to
>help out a client of mine. She wants a few small customizations to
>this huge application -- just under 800 ASP pages.
>
>I wanted to determine which of the ASP pages contained a reference to
>a field in one of her SQL Server tables; so I thought I'd use good old
>Windows XP Search to find the word "editoremail" in any of the ASP
>files. The files are in a folder under C:\Inetpub\wwwroot on my
>workstation. I've got IIS and SQL Server installed on it.
>
>Anyway, I know for a fact that that field name is contained in two of
>the ASP files in one particular folder. I set Windows Search
>going...but it returned only ONE file, and it wasn't even one of the
>two I knew about. I couldn't figure out why Search would not find that
>field name. I even tried searching for "editormail" including the
>quotes since that's how it appears when it's referenced in the ASP
>code:
>
>HoldCC = rse("EditorEmail")
>
>I tried using proper capitalization of the word, too. No dice. Search
>came back with a completely different ASP file. It's funny, too,
>because the file it found is in the same folder as the other two ASP
>files.
>
>So I thought I'd try Yahoo Desktop Search. I installed it and waited
>the half hour or so it took to index my files. But then I found out
>that it doesn't do full text searches! It just looks for file names.
>Uninstalled that puppy.
>
>Then I tried Google Desktop Search. That claims to be full text. Well,
>after it indexed everything, it didn't find a single instance of that
>field name either! Uninstalled it.
>
>What's going on here? Any ideas? I mean, ASP files are just plain old
>text. I'm baffled.
>
>
>  
>

-- 
Marty Connelly
Victoria, B.C.
Canada