RE: desktop search recommendations

Subject: RE: desktop search recommendations
From: "Gordon McLean" <Gordon -dot- McLean -at- GrahamTechnology -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:52:43 +0100

There are hundreds of different file types, I doubt any single tool could
index them all.

No offence Ned, but I doubt your homemade indexer could either.

Or maybe the documentation says that because legal said to put it in?? ;-)

Gordon


-----Original Message-----
> "Searchable file types
> Microsoft Windows Desktop Search indexes more than 200 of the most
> common file types, all of which are listed below.
>
> However, Windows Desktop Search cannot index every type of file.


So if my homemade indexer could do that, and it was just stock VB that I
used to do it, I wonder what's with WDS in this regard?



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