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#1 Thanks and a couple of wishes!
Hello, thank you for the program! Special thanks for distributing it under the GNU GPL!
I added your program to the website about free software in Russian (here is the link).
The program works fine, and quickly, if you specify a list of extensions.
There is not enough help, or some description of how to work with it. I did not immediately understand that keywords and extensions need to be separated using a semicolon, not just a semicolon.
Also, the search capabilities in the DOC and RTF extensions are very lacking!
Hi mrkaban,
Apologies for the delayed response and thanks for adding it to your list.
Regarding the addition of help, I have put some information in the wiki page (also accessible from the summary page).
I did consider adding doc/ppt/xls etc, but decided against it due to the following reasons:
1. These are proprietary formats and have reduced significantly in usage
2. They have been replaced by the newer OpenOffice format docx/pptx/xlsx - which the application supports.
3. To use the old formats, I would need to look at external libraries which would increase the size of the application for very little benefit.
4. I do not want to increase the size of the application unless it's for bug fixing or for new features / language translations.
Hope this explains.
I understand this, but there is a task to search for files in the workplaces of employees that contain some words. And the problem is that they can store forbidden information in the doc.
Here I can translate the list of free programs that cope with this problem: SearchMonkey, DocFetcher.
Although the most convenient seems to be the shareware program SearchMyFiles
Hi mrkaban,
Apologies for the delayed response. I got an email for your original comment/review, but did not get a subsequent notification for the next one. Not sure if there is a setting in SourceForge to check this.
I had a look at the softwares you mentioned and as I mentioned before they are large in size, which I suspect is because they try to handle too many file types (SearchMonkey - 196 MB, DocFetcher - 68 MB). I checked out SearchMyFiles. I was impressed by the size of the software, but realised that the search results aren't exactly correct. I tested creating a basic .doc and .xls file with less than 100 characters, and the search results said that these were in position 12190 (for the .xls file) and 2564 (for the .doc file). If you open these files in notepad, then the answers are somewhat correct, but that's not the point of searching files in the binary or structured format.
I shall keep your request in mind, but I'll need to look for libraries that search these formats correctly rather than open in notepad and get an approximate. This however requires that the libraries be open source and small in size with the appropriate licences.
Closing this off as there is no intention to support legacy proprietary formats.