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Support and Feedback / Re: MC doesn't find phrases and sentences any more

« on: January 22, 2017, 17:53:16 »

MC do not and have never decoded doc files.  doc files are binaries files with the own special format.

Both wrong. There is lots of plain text in doc files and it used to work perfectly with earlier versions, as I wrote. Still does with some files, as I wrote.

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Support and Feedback / Re: MC doesn't find phrases and sentences any more

« on: January 05, 2017, 17:11:02 »

Sorry, I don't recall the build it last worked.

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Support and Feedback / Re: MC doesn't find phrases and sentences any more

« on: January 05, 2017, 13:03:34 »

Thanks for the tipps but none of those seem to be it. Attached find screenshots of the settings.

However, I noticed a typo in the localisation, in the German word for 'directory depth'. It should be "Verzeichnistiefe" but there is one extra 'r' that doesn't belong.

Could that be it? Maybe I'll just quickly test the English version.

Edit: I get the same failure with the language set to English.

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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.