Index Your Files - X! V4.0    Suggested by Rafael Castro - Updated by infimum on 28 Jan 2010 642KB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (1604) Website - Screenshot - Download - Comments (18) - Post comment - Permalink

Posted comments:

 Gary: An appreciated feature here is its ability to create different databases which could represent files on different machines. Great portability! Now, would be nice if it could search within the files themselves...


--Gary :) [2007-02-19 07:20]

 Crash: Searching "within" files is a feature of their commercial product Index Your Files - Revolution. [2007-02-19 11:18]

 Paul Moth: I like the speed and small size. Works great. I think I will buy the one that works directly from CD. I like the speed of the built-in viewers. [2007-02-19 13:53]

 Rafael Castro: Try to search: *.swf/*.mpg/*.avi/*.pdf and look preview. (auto) [2007-02-19 14:29]

 Bill: For a file name search tool it's great. Too limited of a tool for me if it can't search within files. It's not in the league of Copernic, X1, etc. but I guess it's not trying to be. [2007-02-19 15:16]

 Bliky: I'm running it on an old PC (400MHz under Win98); indexing speed is very good, and search is way faster than the built-in equivalent from Windows
Excellent choice for a day-to-day search in a folder dedicated to archived documents [2007-02-20 01:55]

 De: I think this program is great but what is the point of having a Delete function when a file can't be deleted because "it is being used by another person or program". Yip, and that program is Index Your Files. [2007-03-01 15:11]

 Rafael Castro: Reply to De:
The preview blocks it, Deactivate the preview, delete, and active preview. [2007-03-02 12:19]

 kiwichick: Cheers for that Rafael. All good now. Have also discovered that it would be nice to have an option to exclude subfolders from indexes. And even just selected subfolders. Eg I want to scan my Documents folder but don't want the Music, Pictures and Video folders included because they are indexes of their own. I would like to be able to include other Documents subfolders though. [2007-04-30 17:12]

 kiwichick: Sorry Rafael forgot to change name to De. [2007-04-30 17:13]

 Kyle: FYI, Doesn't support running from or indexing UTF named directories. [2007-06-11 21:27]

 Bill: Improved. If you move a group of files it doesn't automatically update the index. I thought it hadn't moved about 150 files after I came up with the same files at the same location on a second search. So, I tried to move again. (It's a good thing I had AutoIt to write a script because it would have been annoying to have had to hit the OK key 150 times when it told me the files couldn't be found.. :) There was no way to break out of that error loop gracefully. Some more on screen activity showing the moves would be helpful. Would like to see the ability to checkbox multiple directory's to index when browsing instead of having to pick one at a time. The search inside feature is about average as far as speed goes but since it doesn't index the contents of files that's to be expected. It highlights the first instance in the preview screen but I couldn't find a way to go to the next incidence. I'm a fan of indexing stuff and this is much improved over prior versions. Good work. [2007-06-11 21:56]

 kiwichick: It would be nice if the website itself had a link for submitting suggestions, etc but it seems here is the only place to do it.

Why is there no option to sort the database lists into alphabetical (or other) order? Is there any way this can be done? [2007-06-27 20:27]

 rafael castro: reply to kiwichick.
In the page Web the email is.
Http://www.indexyourfiles.com/author.html

... next Alpha add sort database and more :) [2007-06-28 09:15]

 RC: ... edit index.txi with notepad and sort ;-) [2007-06-28 09:21]

 MARY JAIYE: I NEED A SAMPLE OF AN ALREADY INDEXED FILES. [2008-01-31 00:23]

 Gmacri: I would like to know if there will be futures updates.
Also how to translate it. [2008-12-07 14:15]

 Boaz: Quite recommended, the application is small, looks nice and finds file in a breeze.
If I would be asked to improve something I would change the GUI so that only the relevant data could be seen i.e. like the FFox sidebar that can be hidden, but altogether I give it a strong thumbs up and will keep it for use on my USBHD . [2008-12-23 03:53]

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