| Evaluating Foxtrot Personal Search [message #401] |
Sat, 18 June 2016 10:12  |
jonathanalix via foxt
Messages: 51
Registered: May 2019
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Hi,
I appear to be on a never ending quest to find a decent search system for
my Mac. As I discover new apps, I'll try them out to discover they are
based on Spotlight or some such nonsense. Spotlight needs taking out into a
deep ocean, have a large concrete block tied to it and slipped over the
side never to be seen again .
Anyway, back to the real world, have downloaded Foxtrot Personal Search and
am kicking the tyres.
What I *mainly* want a search engine to do is
1) Search on filenames, using regular expressions. I am very happy to do
complex regexp on filenames. The reason for this is maintenance of a lot of
old code on our Macs and wanting to find files and THEN dig into them. 95%
of my searches (if not more) are filename based. We have gazillions of
files and we want a quick and easy way to get access to them. Foxtrot
seems to do this OK.
2) We want to have a quick way to access the search. - Double hit control
key is fine - so OK
3) We want the quick search default to filename searching. We don't want to
have to change the type of search to filename searching which is what it
appears we have to do now.
4) It needs to be quick, we know we can search directly the whole disk
using find or FindFile or EasyFind or whatever. We would like a indexed
search thats fast and simple and autoindexes.
So far we can do regexp filename searching and have a quick access method,
what we can't seem to do is to gave the default of filename searching. This
means we get more files back than we should.
Is this possible or does our never ending search go on :0
Thanks
Rob
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