bernard, For windows 10 x64: look for cmd.exe in \ SysWOW64, right-click - select run from administrator, enter REGSVR32 MSCOMCTL.OCX

Or try running ModusDoc as administrator.

Valery, that tip still didn't work, neither did 'run as an admin'. OK, the program does run if you click 'through' the error, but the error happens every time it is launched on Win10 Professional 64 bit. Any more ideas to remove it?

Mike, Now I'm working on Windows 10 Pro x64, there are no messages. Try to repeat installation of program with administrator rights.

Valery, it's too late! The GOTD time has ended so I guess I just have to live with it - I can't reinstall now. Thanks anyway - I'll have to wait until the next time...... :-)

Mike, You can install at any time.

Valery, thanks for all these tips and comments - and, yes, it did reinstall as an admin - but I'm afraid that whatever I do, that dialog pops up every time I launch the app. It's not a show-stopper - just irritating, i guess. Once I 'OK' it away, the app launches and runs very well.

Samantha, Context Menu or Documents - Edit the active cell ... or Documents menu - Mode Editor

Paul, so it's designed for very small data sets and becomes unweildy and time consuming to launch and close if you try and index modern storage systems rather than small drives one might have found on say a windows 98 machine or a small early XP machine?

b.sullivan, I'm sorry but you're mistaken. In my case the vendor almost always send the link. On rare occasions I've had to ask twice. I wonder if your email software is interpreting the emails as spam and deleting them before you see them.

I haven't used Facebook to get the program link in years. I used to use gmx mail to get my GOTD programs, but that email stopped allowing me to get the link e-mails even though I still get the daily r-mails telling me about GOTD offers. I had to switch to gmail to get the link e-mail. I haven't had any issues since.

b.sullivan, I never use the social media option. Always use the same old AOL address that I have just for junk mail purposes. I'd say 98% of the time I get the link. Perhaps try a different email account?

b.sullivan, just from experience, GOTD is very lenient when it comes to temp mails, the only thing i can suggest is using a different email provider. Never had a problem with receiving download links on my temp mail and there are bunchloads of it.

b.sullivan, try a different email address, the one I use to comment with used to work fine but over the past few months they apear to have put it on some kind of block list so personalised download link emails are never sent to it... I have to use a different email address now to get a personalised download link email now. It's not an email provider problem for me as the alteranate email box that does work was tied to the same account when I was with that particular ISP.

Jorge, No. The program is already activated.

Valery, many thanks!

alternety,

Can anyone please point me to an actual reputable software review for this product?

Preferably before the offer expires.

The Softpedia review (possibly for an earlier version, I didn't check) seems to provide a reasonable summary:

https://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/Diary-Organizers-Calendar/ModusDoc.shtml

Gary, Sync is not provided.

Valery, This is something which I would suggest is needed.

Steve, I agree. I'm thinking about it.

Steve, Yes, but if the scan currently takes 4 weeks, how much longer will it take if it has to calculate CRC32 hashes for each file?!! lollllllz.

Karl, Or just install on all your computers if you want it on them all, the Lifetime licens is not tied to hardware at all.

An undo last operation button would be helpful


Scanning the contents even of an SSD partition of moderate size seems to take quite a long while

The program doesn't recognise items that it has already scanned in. Tackling this and being otherwise able to identify and remove duplicates would be useful.

I'd like to see more in the way of a button bar for operations and the potential to combine these as macros. There are buttons for various operations but these are scattered about the program window rather than being gathered together. Being able to place buttons to choice would be welcome

There is an array of filters but their use is not immediately apparent. Hopefully reference to the help file will clarify their purpose. Being able to save sets of filters for re-use would be welcome.

I crashed the program with an apparent operand error and then gave up.

Being able to watch key folders or to run regular or start-up updates would also be helpful.

Tranmontane,
This is useful to users who manage larger file systems on their PCs. A relational database system is incredibly useful for those who have TB's of data and need a quick way to index and manage that data.

You start by scanning all the files on your PC, which will build a quick index of everything available. By adding different indexing values, you can start to build relationships. For example, I can add a value field of "Client" to all files in the index and then start updating files with the client the file is in relation to. Moving forward, I can quickly filter down to a specific client and see all files in the system in relation to them.

It takes time to set up a working process, but this software seems to be pretty straight forward for those who are trying to set something simple up in terms of database management on a local system.

However- I will say that the initial scan of a drive is pretty long. Not really a fault of the devs, but just something to keep in mind if you're trying to load in huge systems. My main drive took around ten mins.

Bob, I understand that you will live several lifetimes?! ;-)

Dylan,
Thank you for the helpful comment. To me, ten minutes to index a (large) modern hard drive does not seem long, however! I am still not sure I need this. I have always had conceptual problems in understanding relational databases and have not really used them; this is probably my fault, not the software's fault.

Bob, well, the program comes with a lifetime license, so i don't see the issue here. As with most indexers, the initial process can take pretty long and it's obvious why but once the initial process is done with, all others won't take as much, i assume. And if there isn't much for you to do, just let it do all the work and do something else in the meantime.

Dylan, What? let it scan and build an index of over 2 million files on my laptop that will take an age especially with the ancient multifile database system based on .dbf files with no inbuilt resliance... If I just want to index and search files why have all the database functionality Everything builds searchable index of files much quicker and never at any cost. So if we are talking about clients then this giveaway is permitting use in a commercial environment? This seems like an alternative to tabbles and other similar systems of categorising disorganised files... because if they were organised properly in the first place the folders they were stored in would all be correctly organised and named transparently... And using hard links in NTFS one can cross reference files that are in one place in the heirachy from multiple hardlinks refering to them from alternative folder names.

hussein, Portable version paid
http://www.modus58.net/modusdoc/index.html

Valery, is this version offered here originally paid as well? Thanks.

hussein, Yes, it is presented on the website http://www.modus58.net/modusdoc/
ModusDoc Standard Version 7.2.309

hussein, It seems that once installed on your PC, if you copy the folder Modus... on USB key or an external disk and you use it on another PC, it works (I started but did not allow registry server to act then for the mscomctl.ocx to install to prevent a modification on the second PC. You should try.

GertJ, try running ModusDoc as administrator.

Valery, yeah running a user mode program as an adminstrator... that's called lowering your security!