Re: Win XP Search not finding anything!

From: David Candy (david_at_mvps.org)
Date: 09/02/04 

Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 02:31:59 +1000

Ask stupid people like yourself. 

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"M Skabialka" <mskabialka@NOSPAMdrc.com> wrote in message news:ebO4MaQkEHA.3608@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> This is not smart searching, it's really, really stupid!  Don't tell me what 
> I want to do, ask me what I want to do!
> 
> So how can I do a REAL search and find what I need?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mich
> 
> "David Candy" <david@mvps.org> wrote in message 
> news:egNjQPQkEHA.3848@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Because people normally search for Data. So XP searches for user data. Code 
> is not user data. Searching google for <html> won't find every web page in 
> google's database cause google, like XP, searches content not binary 
> structure.
> 
> It's smart searching.
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> "M Skabialka" <mskabialka@NOSPAMdrc.com> wrote in message 
> news:OqNM16PkEHA.1356@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > I was trying to find a form in an Access database that had code I wanted 
> > to
> > reuse.  So using Windows XP I did a search on all of my databases on the
> > computer:
> >
> > filename: *.mdb
> > A word or phrase in the file: scroll
> > Look in: My Computer
> >
> > Search didn't find it, so I tried another word, then tried "sub" which
> > appears multiple times in every database.
> >
> > In no case did the search find any files.
> > My search options include:
> > Search system folders
> > Search hidden fiels and folders
> > Search subfolders
> >
> > No date or size restrictions....
> >
> > I could do this in Windows98, in fact I just went to my old PC with some 
> > of
> > the same databases and did a search, and found databases based on seach
> > words.
> > Why can't I find these access .mdb files based on words in them using
> > Windows XP search?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mich
> >
> > 
> 
>

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