| Re: Evaluating Foxtrot Personal Search [message #402 is a reply to message #401] |
Sat, 18 June 2016 12:56   |
CTM Development
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Sir,
We hope to offer more than a comfort stop on your never-ending quest.
If your focus is on filename searches, I suggest you change your FoxTrot Personal settings to not indexing contents: this is real easy to do if you just are indexing your main volume: use the preset “filenames only”. If you have other volumes, click all the predefined locations off, drag the volumes you wish into Custom folder, and when you have each of these selected, uncheck all the boxes under “index contents of files”. If you need a visual representation of this, download the attached link below.
This way, the index you will have created only contains filenames, no find by content.
If you want to have the best of both worlds, ie filename search only using the FoxTrot System menu and content find from within the application, you can do this in FoxTrot Professional Search by having several indices. Configure the first one (Main index) as above, and create a search window with only that one selected (possibly setting it to “filenames only” as well. Quit the application and relaunch. The setup which you have left should be restored as your new default.
Then you can also have other indices, but make sure you disable them after use so that your system menu only searches your main index.
Finally, if you haven’t discovered this yet, the syntax for advanced searches can be found at:
http://help.foxtrot.ch/foxtrot-professional-search/searching /advanced_search/index.html
Best regards,
jean michel/ctm qa
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> On Jun 18, 2016, at 10:12 AM, 'Rob Willett' via foxtrot-search wrote:
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> Hi,
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> 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 .
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> Anyway, back to the real world, have downloaded Foxtrot Personal Search and am kicking the tyres.
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> What I *mainly* want a search engine to do is
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> 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.
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> 2) We want to have a quick way to access the search. - Double hit control key is fine - so OK
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Is this possible or does our never ending search go on :0
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> Thanks
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> Rob
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