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SearchMyFiles V1.40
Suggested by Onesimus Prime - Updated by guinness on 26 Jan 2010
81KB (uncompressed) - Popularity score (919)
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Synopsis: SearchMyFiles is an alternative to the standard "Search For Files And Folders" module of Windows. It allows you to easily search files in your system by wildcard, by last modified/created/last accessed time, by file attributes, by file content (text or binary search), and by the file size. SearchMyFiles allows you to make a very accurate search that cannot be done with Windows search. For Example: You can search all files created in the last 10 minutes with size between 500 and 700 bytes. After you made a search, you can select one or more files, and save the list into text/HTML/CSV/XML file, or copy the list to the clipboard.

Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch SearchMyFiles.exe.

Stealth [?]: Yes

Unicode support: Yes

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7

What's new: >>

Added /StartSearch command-line option, which allows you to start a search without displaying the Search Options window.
The 'Browse' button of 'Base Folders' and 'Excluded Folders' in the 'Search Options' window now allows you to add more than one folder, when one or more folders are already listed in the text-box.
Added 'File Position' and 'File Content' columns for file content search. When the 'File Contains' field is not 'None' (text or binary), the 'File Position' column displays the position (in bytes) that the data was found, and the 'File Content' column displays the characters around the found text/binary data.

Posted comments:

Just Art: I have no freakin' idea how this one works. I set up the parameters to find files of a known type in a directory and it doesn't do squat. The is absolutely positively NO help in this one. Probably a really good idea, but maybe you just have to be a programmer to get it to work. [2009-05-29 13:06]

Webfork: A power-user search tool that doesn't require indexing, SearchMyFiles allows for extremely customized searches of your computer for very specific information. Much more detailed and customized versus other scanning programs available here on the site.

Very useful, very effective software light years ahead of Windows own painfully stupid file-finding software. With this and Everything (http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1479) you can find anything. [2009-06-17 13:54]

kiest: Excellent find for me! I can finally use this to export a directory listing of my unicode-named files. This should be categorised under the Directory Listing category as none of those there supports Unicode! [2009-08-02 08:28]

Fidvo: Finally, a simple and straightforward interface to a Search program. I've been looking for something like this ever since Microsoft turned their search into a horribly mangled train wreck in Vista.

I do have a couple of minor nitpicky complaints. First, it uses two windows. If you cancel the search from the settings window, you still have to close the Search window. Second, it would be nice if it supported drag-and-drop from Windows Explorer to determine the folder to search in. Third, it always saves the settings from your last search. It doesn't give you a choice. I got around that by setting the .cfg file to read-only.

None of these is enough to ruin it for me though. [2009-11-25 19:20]

mozkill: Not as good as a free program called "WildReplace" but this is ok. [2010-01-28 13:46]

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