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Support and Feedback / MC doesn't find phrases and sentences any more
« on: January 03, 2017, 12:10:37 »
Hi,
MC doesn't find phrases and sentences within files any more, at least not reliably.
I have been using MultiCommander for some time as a workaround of a deficiency of Windows 7, compared to Windows XP:
The search function of the Win XP explorer was able to do a full-text search within files and find phrases and sentences. The search function in Windows 7 is apparently not able to do that. It does a Boolean 'AND' search and is generally somewhat buggy and useless to me.
However, of late, MC has become unable to find files that contain a certain phrase or sentence.
I'm currently using version 6.9.1 build 2306 and it's at least the second automatic update that has failed in this way.
Example: the directory c:\Test_1 contains the subdirectory c:\Test_1\Test_2. Both contain copies of the two files "New Text.doc" and "Old - Text.doc". All of these files contain the search phrase "gas injection".
Searching for that phrase though only turns up the file "New Text.doc" but not the file "Old - Text.doc".
Am I doing something wrong here or what is it? Because, as I said, MC used to do this just fine until recently (though I couldn't say when it started to fail.) Any help appreciated.
MC doesn't find phrases and sentences within files any more, at least not reliably.
I have been using MultiCommander for some time as a workaround of a deficiency of Windows 7, compared to Windows XP:
The search function of the Win XP explorer was able to do a full-text search within files and find phrases and sentences. The search function in Windows 7 is apparently not able to do that. It does a Boolean 'AND' search and is generally somewhat buggy and useless to me.
However, of late, MC has become unable to find files that contain a certain phrase or sentence.
I'm currently using version 6.9.1 build 2306 and it's at least the second automatic update that has failed in this way.
Example: the directory c:\Test_1 contains the subdirectory c:\Test_1\Test_2. Both contain copies of the two files "New Text.doc" and "Old - Text.doc". All of these files contain the search phrase "gas injection".
Searching for that phrase though only turns up the file "New Text.doc" but not the file "Old - Text.doc".
Am I doing something wrong here or what is it? Because, as I said, MC used to do this just fine until recently (though I couldn't say when it started to fail.) Any help appreciated.