[dba-Tech] Windows XP Search

I use google destop search w/ the added 3rd party plugin to do full
text file indexing, I find my .sql .bas and .vbs keywords instantly,
not to mention because I have to use outlook here as well, I also
search my outlook email via Google desktop search... it's by far the
best tool I've used so far, the only thing it doesn't do is network
drives.  I'm waiting for someone to write a plugin to cover that
problem :)


On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 19:33:54 -0600, Steve Erbach <erbachs at gmail.com> 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.
> 
> --
> Regards,
> 
> Steve Erbach
> Scientific Marketing
> Neenah, WI
> http://www.swerbach.com
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