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| Thread ID: 28142 | 2002-12-12 00:18:00 | Search File Contents in Win XP | Miami Steve (2128) | Press F1 |
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| 105293 | 2002-12-12 00:18:00 | I have a problem which has confounded us for months now. My associates at work are all running Win XP Pro with SP1 installed (I have stuck with Win 2K, thankfully). Every day, we move ASCII text files around via FTP, and occasionally we need to find a file that contains a specific piece of data. Using Win XP explorer to search a folder for all files "containing text" results in "No results to display":(. Performing the same search using Win 2K brings up the file(s) containing the text being searched for:). To further confuse, all the files have a .ORD extension, and changing that to .TXT allows XP to find the file(s)?:|. We have even tried setting a file association for .ORD files, associating them with Notepad, but XP refuses to find them. Is this a bug in XP, or are we all missing something very obvious here. Even telling XP to search only the file containing the text results in no matches. Any ideas, anyone? Cheers Miami |
Miami Steve (2128) | ||
| 105294 | 2002-12-12 00:21:00 | when you search do you delect "documents" or "all file and folders" all files and folders should work fine. |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 105295 | 2002-12-12 00:25:00 | I wish it was that easy. All Files and Folders is the selection , and then "More advanced options" where Search System Files, Hidden files etc. are checked. | Miami Steve (2128) | ||
| 105296 | 2002-12-12 00:47:00 | Works for me. I just enter the text in "a word or phrase in the file" box and it finds it. Even when its in an excel or a word file, still finds it same as text file. Win XP, SP1 |
godfather (25) | ||
| 105297 | 2002-12-12 00:49:00 | godfather, Humour me here.... what happens if you change the file extension to .ORD? Cheers Miami |
Miami Steve (2128) | ||
| 105298 | 2002-12-12 00:51:00 | >Using Win XP explorer to search a folder for all files "containing text" >results in "No results to display" Wonder just where you find that option, it is not in mine??? |
godfather (25) | ||
| 105299 | 2002-12-12 01:04:00 | > > Using Win XP explorer to search a folder for all > > files "containing text" > results in "No results to > > display" > > Wonder just where you find that option, it is not in > mine??? Sorry, godfather, you are right. That is the terminology used in Win 2K. It is, as someone said earlier, "A word or phrase in the file" in XP. Since the last post I have just spent some time on an XP machine and I did the following: 1. Located a file with a TXT extension. (file.txt) 2. Searched for a string I knew was in the file, and it was found. 3. Renamed the file to an ORD extension (file.ord) 4. Repeated the search - No results to display. Cheers Miami |
Miami Steve (2128) | ||
| 105300 | 2002-12-12 01:06:00 | > Works for me. > I just enter the text in "a word or phrase in the > file" box and it finds it. Even when its in an excel > or a word file, still finds it same as text file. > > Win XP, SP1 But in NT4 and 2000 you could point it at a folder full of, say, .DAT files and it would search inside them. I have not been able to convince XP to do this. |
BIFF (1) | ||
| 105301 | 2002-12-12 01:17:00 | So I'm not alone. Is this a new feature that we just have to live with? We can have thousands of files that we need to search, to find a specific order from a customer, to prove to them that they asked for something that they later deny. Renaming the files, just to scan them, seems a bit silly, even for M$. Cheers Miami |
Miami Steve (2128) | ||
| 105302 | 2002-12-12 01:17:00 | A bit clearer now. At a guess I would say it needs to be a "file of type" listed under the drop down box. Simple association is not enough. If there was an application installed that had this as a primary file type it appears OK. If not, it doesn't! |
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