Workarounds for the issues in Windows Xp's search (text within text files) do not resolve the issue completely. Users have turned to desktop search utilities such as Google Desktop or Microsoft's own Windows Desktop Search. This is a request for complete portable desktop search utility that doesn't include performance reducing and privacy risking indexing or widgets. Perhaps something along the lines of Agent Ransack.
I searched the forums here for such a request but couldn't find one. If one does exist please point me to that thread.
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What's the benefits of making a portable version of any hard drive search engine? The software would have to re-index your whole hard drive (or multiple drives) every time it's inserted. That could take a very, very long time. Then you could talk about "limited # of write cycles" if the software/index/hash file is on flash media. If you use the same computer all the time so the index is reused, you might as well have it installed locally on the machine itself.
When I asked John why InfraRecorder scanned the bus every time it was inserted? Was there a way to turn it off? His response was that you have toi assume the drive is being used on a new machine every time it's being inserted. That rule would apply in this case and make the software slow to a crawl and be worthless as it re-indexed every file on your drive(s) every time it was inserted.
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I agree that performance could take a hit but I already expect to take that hit with other portable applications due to the nature of the beast. However I am not so much interested in how long a search takes (within reason) so much as I am interested in actually searching everything and finding what I'm looking for.
I use powerdesk file finder, or V-Grep http://www.english.aionel.net/
I'm working on one.
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I don't know if this fits your request but...
http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=805
http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1177
http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1240
http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=204
http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=972
etc, etc...
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If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
The original request is a brilliant idea for people who store all there data on a USB stick not on your local hdd, who wants to search the local disk if your, documents are on the disk you carry around all the time.
What I need GDS for is I save all my mails,documents, and other things in \docs so I would love to have GDS index just \docs and save the indexes to \indexes I currently do this but on local disk that indexes my USB stick which is a long way arround.
You could also look at TweekGDS to set index locations / indexable items. A good plugin that will allow you to index anything is "Any Text File Indexer". DNKA acts as a web server (search server) by interacting as a layer between Google Desktop Search (Enterprise) and user.
TweekGDS - http://www.podsync.com/tweakgds.htm
Any Text File Indexer - http://www.trivex.net/
DNKA - http://www.dnka.com/
Could someone please help me port GDS or port it for me?
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--wayne