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Search in Windows. I have a term I know I used in some set of documents. I can't remember where I put those documents in some file structure. I use the search
by Balgair 4y ago
Search in Windows.
I have a term I know I used in some set of documents. I can't remember where I put those documents in some file structure. I use the search function. Friggin' 10 minutes later it finally stops searching, returning a gazillion files which have nothing to do with the term I was searching for.
Yeah, yeah, search is hard on local systems. Turn indexing on. Blah blah blah.
Like, I have endless Halo and ads in the home menu, but I don't have the ability to actually use the computer in any productive way.
- IshKebab 4y agoI feel the same way about Chrome's browsing history. I was definitely looking at this site 5 minutes ago, why can't I find it in the history?? Plus it only stores like 30 days of history. What's the point of that? I have to install a third party extension to make history usable. My theory is they deliberately sabotage it so you have to use Google instead to try to re-find what you were looking at.
- dole 4y agoWindows Search has almost always been useless IMHO. I've used an old copy of Funduc Search and Replace forever for this and when I can't on another machine, it's FINDSTR from the commandline. If you're looking for just filenames, voidtools Everything is awesome.
- rasz 4y agovoidtools Everything