Putko Mafani, Just installed textcrawler and guess what: it is not free.

Putko Mafani, I tried both softwares on the same directory with the same files.

I found that "textseek" is more efficient in terms of research. For example, it can analyze editable pdf files - something that Textcrawler cannot do. The advantage of "Textcrawler" is that it can perform a "search and replace" in some text files.

In conclusion, interesting to have both softwares.

USER, Thanks for your advice. We will consider it in future release.

TextSeek is designed to search for both filename and content. So even the new feature is included, the speed will be quite slow as Everything. As you know, you can open txt file in Microsoft Word, but slower than Notepad.

Zest Company,

I don't know How the Search works, but when searching file names, will be as easy as Map/Folder names I guess.

So, an Option to let the program know What to Search, with and/or without an Index?
Don't know, just guessing.

I know, it can/will slow it down some what.
How Much?

Thanks about your efforts! :)

PS: Have a happy work week & weekend! :)

Geokid,

It's all about promotion.
GOTD members can benefit by it and they can/will have their promotion & maybe some good updates/upgrade idea's.

I think it is! :)

USER,

GOT IT! :)

Yeah, strange to must have an Internet connection active, to have a (offline) local program running the (offline) local system!

:(

And when it searches, the program is demanding, it's not responsive as it should be.
Very slow when searching and clicking on something.
When doing some settings (while searching), it closes. But the setting is done!

Don't know if I keep it!

PS: Have a happy work week & weekend! :)

Geokid, I agree. That is a major privacy and security concern. Especially for software designed to read all your text documents.

Geokid,

Unless things have changed since the last time this title was offered, see the replies to comment #10 (Raymond Fellers) on this same topic:

https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/textseek/

HMarx,

Sorry, I meant to say "replies starting with comment #10..." and earlier (especially comment #7).

BlkCrowe, I'm a retired computer programmer. I use "Everything". It actually does have the option to search for text inside files. To do so, click Search / Advanced. You can tell it words and/or phrases to find, and also words to exclude. "Everything is VERY fast, and if you learn all it's features, you'll find you can save catalogs of files on external media like USB hard drives, so that when you do a global search for file names it can also tell you which unconnected drives also contain those files (and in what folders there).

BlkCrowe, Yes. Don't know about the others, but SearchMyFiles and AgentRansack, very fast. Love 'em both, and they are free.

mark_wr, Thanks for reminding me of the program name. I too used it but forgot the name and have been trying to think of it for a month.

ricohflex, many Western companies' products are assembled in China. The question would be, where is the software actually designed and written? If somebody is concerned (I didn't see that anybody said so), it's because there's a general worry that software and firmware designed in China may hide logic that Westerners would not like.

ricohflex,
>"Apple iPhones are made in China. So what is the problem?"

iPhones don't return to China carrying data. That can happen with software, ... from computers AND phones. Also, the iPhone is manufactured for a U.S. company (Apple), and if Apple were to discover the phone was sending back data to the creator in China, they would put a stop to it.

On the other hand, software programs made by a company in China could easily transfer data back to the creator, and many of the users would not know the difference.

A U.S. news item in March 2020 has pointed out that the SmartPhone app TikTok (made in China) allows its creator to know all sorts of data about the users, such as where they are located and where they travel. A TikTok user boarding a plane could be tracked right up to the time they shut their phone down. Obviously, they are on the plane. Any location that has a high number of TikTok users will also have a large number of citizens overall. This should be proof enough that all sorts of data about users can be gathered and returned to their developers, and thus why some people are concerned.

Now, whether TextSeek gathers private information to send back to the developers has not been proven. There are agencies that test these sorts of issues. So far, I have not seen any reports indicating the TextSeek program participates in this behavior. Most likely, communications back to headquarters is for the purpose to determine if the license is valid; they are not the first company to do that.

yes, it does several calls to textseek.net

also note that search doesnt work unless you give it Internet access - why ?

mike, That is worrying?

mike, according to their help system (if unable to access hte internet):

"TextSeek requires network verification. If you encounter problems, please disable the firewall and enable TextSeek to access the Internet."

So, it sounds like it has to verify that the program is actually 'active' ???

Not something that I really feel is necessary, especially if they go out of business (or stop supporting this product) then we can't use it, even if it is still 'valid'?

No thanks.

ibarz,

One such professional program is dtSearch.

It can index search the contents of virtually any local or remotely stored document (including on other Windows, Mac, Linux machines), binary file, PDF, archive (including ZIP, of course), website page crawl, email messages and their attachments, etc.; highlights all "hits" throughout the target files in their file viewer(s); provides near-instant results and can use "regular expressions", "stemming", "fuzzy" and "phonic" (sounds-like) search terms; can provide online search capabilities (vs., say, Google) for website visitors; and is used by professional forensics investigators, researchers, lawyers, libraries, human resource departments (to search resumes of job applicants), etc.

They provide an online "live" demo of their product at work.

However, due to its extensive and rather technical feature set it can be rather tricky to set up and get all the options customized to work best "for you"; has a rather clunky interface (my main beef); and at $200 for the personal Desktop edition (2 machines) is somewhat expensive casual users yet worth it if you need such capability and flexibility (though a real bargain vs. other comparable "enterprise level solutions").

Except for the interface (I wish they would incorporate custom "skins" for their GUI) it is the most amazing do-it-all contents-search tool I have yet to find at any price (including those selling for many thousands). It is constantly being improved and kept up-to-date, and their support is very responsive.

ibarz,

A small "whoops!": dtSearch does NOT index-search within the contents of .7z (7-zip) files you mentioned. At least, not by default.

Out of the box it does support searching the contents of RAR, ZIP, GZIP and TAR files as these archive format types are far more standard/popular and exchanged among businesses.

Due to the available dtSearch API's it has a fairly active third-party developer base that, perhaps, could develop a custom application feature for you. Or there might already exist a third-party product based on the available dtSearch "engine" that can do it.

Here's an article:

https://superuser.com/questions/326737/how-do-i-search-the-content-of-7-zip-archives-7z

Hope this helps!

Terry I,

What I want to know is what happens when it expires?
Does it stop working or does it mean no support or do we end up with a crippled version.

Need to know for my will.

Terry I,

it may give you another 30 day trial as per their website,

then features limited or...