DownloadLocate32 finds files and directories based on file and folder names stored in a database. Locate32 saves to a database the names of all files on your hard drives. Once the file indexing has occurred, you can locate files quickly by using the application's search form. It works like "updatedb" and "locate" commands in Unix. In other words, it uses databases to store information about directory structures and uses these databases in searches. The use of these databases provides very fast searching speed. The software includes a dialog-based application as well as console programs that can be used to update and access the databases. Locate32 is not primarily meant to find text or data within files, but it has a primitive feature to do this.
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- locating
- searching
- file names
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I have no idea when I first heard of locate32 and started to use it. I think it was the late 90's, but may have been early 2000's. Since then, I cannot imagine a Windows machine running without it. I only wish it was still updated.
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If you cannot remember when you first started using a utility, it indicates something. In this case it's like trying to remember when I first started to use a hammer. Yes, there are other search utilities and it's different strokes for different folks, sure. I just think that this one is a no-brainer: works perfectly, has all the settings you need and it is quick. (And free! important when you run eight Windows PCs) Which is why it has sat within the top three of my Utility Top Ten for more than a decade .... two decades?... see?
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The kind of tools that does what it said and not more than it should. No bulls***, low footprint, reliable. Just a must on all my Windows computers.
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i—love—this—piece—of—software! i've been using it for years now; i work as a DJ and deal with a very large local library that i'm constantly updating weekly: this program was a total godsend when i found it all those moons ago: it's lightning fast--(and beliiiieve me—i've tried alllll the indexing software out there just about). this is, hands down, the best one and it comes with *zero* BS / adware / etc... it's also very customizable, with just about every keyboard shortcut (which i'm huge on) available to be mapped, as well as the ability to create as many separate databases for it as you like, with the option to search using all or some at any given time. simply put---it's just a great little *lightweight* (did i mention that party, by the way? i don't believe it even causes a DENT in system resources)--a shining example of why clean, portable software applications are always going to be the better way to go. give it a go--you won't be sorry.
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I do not know why all the others are either so complicated, too simple or enormously slow (I know it reads from a static database)! Locate 32 is the best. I have some x64 versions here. Hey - THANKS Janne Huttunen!