Re: windows explorer search function
- From: "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:27:27 -0700
On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:53:28 -0800, "shakey" <NOONE@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
No replies received in new users so please do not consider this a crosspost.
It's not a crosspost, it's a multi-post.
Please do not send the same message separately to more than one
newsgroup (called multiposting). Doing so just fragments the thread,
so someone who answers in one newsgroup doesn't get to see answers
from others in another newsgroup. And for those who read all the
newsgroups the message is multiposted to, they see the message
multiple times instead of once (they would see it only once if you
correctly crossposted instead). This wastes everyone's time, and gets
you poorer help than you should get.
If you must send the same message to more than one newsgroup, please
do so by crossposting -- sending a single message simultaneously to
multiple newsgroups (but only to a *few* related newsgroups).
Please see "Multiposting vs Crossposting" at
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm
Crossposting is fine, but multi-posting is not, and should almost
always be avoided. However, if you let sufficient time go by, and
because you didn't get any responses repeat a message in another
newsgroup, that kind of multi-posting is OK.
But one more point: XP new users and XP help and support mostly get
the same bunch of people, so multiposting to two similar newsgroups
generally accomplishes nothing.
Why is it that when I use windows explorer SEARCH for a one of a kind file
name such as "life
policies" I find multiple duplicated locations in results such as these
four--
C:\Documents and settings\me\my documents
C:\Documents and settings\me\my documents
C:\Documents and settings\me\my documents
and
my documents
Those four? The first three have identical names.
All have same name, date, rev, etc. and are the same. Am I somehow
multi-filing them?
My concern is waste of disk space.
It's hard to understand exactly what you mean, but almost certainly
you're just seeing multiple references to the same files and there is
no duplication or waste of disk space.
--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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