Re: BUG? Explorer Search, XPSP2, Fails To Search Contents

From: Don Taylor (dont_at_agora.rdrop.com)
Date: 02/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 16:53:09 -0600

"Jim Carlock" <anonymous@localhost.com> writes:
>Checked:
> Advanced Options
> Search system folders
> Search hidden files and folders
> Search Subfolders

>Search for files or folders named:
>TRIED: *.*
>TRIED:
>TRIED: *.odl

>Containing text holds:
>long

>Folder being searched is the specific folder that holds the following
>extracted zip file:
>http://tinyurl.com/4rbva

>There are ALOT of references to long in the wintype.odl file. But
>XP SP2 Search turns up NOTHING.

>Does anyone know if there's a way to get "Search for Files and
>Folders" to work?

>When I take out the contents it returns everything that is
>inside the folder as expected. But it does not search the
>contents of these mostly ANSI files.

Search old newsgroup postings using google to confirm this:

Short answer, "Enhancing" XP to support Unicode character sets
means that XP now doesn't search all kinds of files to find
text inside, and as you have discovered, doesn't make this
"feature" obvious. Some have suggested punting XP search and
using other search tools that do work for this.

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