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Windows Search Sucks
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25/09/2007 09:51:24
Jay Johengen
Altamahaw-Ossipee, North Carolina, United States
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Windows
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Computing in general
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01256636
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01256687
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Jay,

Not one week ago I was trying to find something, and I knew I was using Excel in that program, so I did a search for mask *.prg and that contain "Excel", just like you. Windows search brought forward to files: Exceletel.prg and Exceletest.prg, none of those had the word excel inside (they are test for some telephony card), therefore I think there is some kind of bug that searchs not in the contents but in the name of the file, just like the mask does... of course filer found the file I was looking for.

>I did a search on files named *.prg that contain "SchedPhone" and got no hits on my entire hard drive. I redo the search - cause I know it exists - and look for *.* files that contain "ApptBox" and it finds ApptBox.prg that contains both the "ApptBox" and "SchedPhone" phrases. Why didn't the first search find the file? Stupid Windows...
"The five senses obstruct or deform the apprehension of reality."
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