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My office computer needed to have the OS completely reloaded – ouch! But what can you do. I had been using the Google Desktop search engine. Although it is nice, it had, for me, several drawbacks.
It let me find old email instantly. However, I have about 20 subfolders in my Outlook and I wanted to be able to restrict my search to a folder, but Google always searches the whole thing.
Secondly, Google would not search the files on my server. Everything but my email is on my server as it is backed up every night.
After getting my station back up and running, I decided to look for a better solution. Slate had run a test on various desktop search engines. They liked something called Copernic.
I downloaded and installed the Copernic desktop search engine. It answers my two objections to Google’s product.
I can restrict my search to a single folder when searching my emails or not. I can point it to my server and have it search the files on my server too.
It takes a while to index all the files, but when done it finds any file instantly. I can also preview the files like the preview screen in Outlook.
I recommend you download Copernic and try it. It is free and very cool.
Posted by Ted at February 19, 2005 2:41 PM