>>>Seriously - a suggestion for something like this - save the file to wherever it saves, and then use file search across all your drives to find it. Half the time when I do that, I find something in another folder that I forgot I had. :)
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>>I have another problem - I want to find the latest copy of my DB. I tried using everything, but it just hangs. So, I don't know what to use to search my old H drive for the DB.
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>OK, I didn't read all the posts so you might have already answered this. You're saying you tried to search the MDF file on your H: drive and the machine hangs?
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>Two things...first (and maybe you already did this), try temporarily stopping the SQL Server service (if you can)
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>Second....I hate the regular File Search in Windows 7/8....there are lots of File search utilities on the web (free ones) that are better than the one in Windows. (I wish the old XP version were still an option). I use this one:
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http://www.jam-software.com/ultrasearch/>
>It's not perfect but much better than the native one in Windows.
I am saying I tried using the 'everything search' software and it just hangs.
It says
"UltraSearch finds files and folders on
local NTFS drives and provides the results in just a few seconds."
I don't know, if the drive I am connecting through the connector, can be considered local. May be that's the reason that everything can not search it.
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