How to search effective in 100GB of files for'text' content?

[chrysamere]

Hello,

I got 100+GB of company work files. PDF,doc,excel,txt,ppt....

I made a simple file search in total cmd , left every setting on default, i just set the folder to search in and checked "find text".

It found some files like after 5 min search, but they are not nearly the amount what should have been.
For example i know lot of files which contain the "text" i searched for, but these files weren't listed on the search's results.

So my question:
How can i optimize totalcmd search to find all and every file containing the "text" i'm searching for, no matter how long time the search will take?
Is there any trick/tool/script/plugin, or a totally different program which can do the search properly? I tried win10 search multiple ways but it stuck/doesnt work

Thanks very much!!

[Hacker]

chrysamere,

How can i optimize totalcmd search to find all and every file containing the "text" i'm searching for, no matter how long time the search will take?

I'd say let TC finish the search.
Also, e.g. PDF files contain their text in an encoded form, so a simple text search in TC will not find the text if it is contained in a PDF. Same with DOC, XLS, PPT, etc. files. Some of those can be searched for text by using plugins.

Roman

[chrysamere]

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Hello, thanks for the reply.
I meant the search finished after like 5min, i didnt stop it.

By plugins you meant ones like these ?
totalcmd net/plugring/xpdfsearch.html
totalcmd net/plugring/TextSearch.html

I found these after first google search. Maybe there's a better collecting forum post for these kind of plugins?

[Hacker]

chrysamere,

By plugins you meant ones like these ?

Yes, like these, but I don't think I have ever personally tried them, so I can't really comment on them.

Roman

[Ovg]

2chrysamere
Try PCREsearch 2.5 from https://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=38098

[chrysamere]

Thanks for the suggestion, i tried, but couldn't get it work. I can't understand its setting its too complicated:P

By the way, here is an example file (1page pdf)
filedropper DOT com/1_399

what settings should i use to make it find the word "humidity" inside it?

[Dalai]

what settings should i use to make it find the word "humidity" inside it?

I'd search with tab Plugins and set it like this:

Code: Select all

xPDFSearch | Text | contains | humidity

Regards
Dalai

[Ovg]

2chrysamere

1. Download http://download.oracle.com/otn/outsidein/ca-8-5-3-win-x86-32.zip or http://download.oracle.com/otn/outsidein/ca-8-5-3-win-x86-64.zip or both

2. Extract content of folder redist to somewhere, eg c:\outsidein\redist32 or c:\outsidein\redist64

3. Install PCResearch content plugin

4. Open PCREsearch.ini, find keys:
OitDllPath32=
OitDllPath64=
Write to those keys paths where your files from step 2 resides. eg
OitDllPath32=c:\outsidein\redist32
OitDllPath64=c:\outsidein\redist64
Save and close ini file

5. Restart TC

6. Press Alt+F7

7. Mark find text

8. Click ± at bottom

9. Click Add

10. Type Name of your search and click Ok

11. Type *.* and click Ok

12. Click +

13. in Left pane choose PCResearch, in right -pcresearch.Oracle Outside In fulltext search, press Ok

14. Mark Plugins near ±

15. Enter text to search for

16. Enter file name(s)/mask in search for field at top

17. Click Search

[nsp]

Hello,

I got 100+GB of company work files. PDF,doc,excel,txt,ppt....

I made a simple file search in total cmd , left every setting on default, i just set the folder to search in and checked "find text".

It found some files like after 5 min search, but they are not nearly the amount what should have been.
For example i know lot of files which contain the "text" i searched for, but these files weren't listed on the search's results.

So my question:
How can i optimize totalcmd search to find all and every file containing the "text" i'm searching for, no matter how long time the search will take?
Is there any trick/tool/script/plugin, or a totally different program which can do the search properly? I tried win10 search multiple ways but it stuck/doesnt work

Thanks very much!!

Total commander with PCRESearch + outsidein do a pretty good job, for one shot search.

If you need to use this kind of search regularly, you can use a tools like "Doc Fetcher" or enable content search for Windows Search.
For text only i also use "Depeche View Pro".

Some official PDF have font encryption/password protection that prevent search, cut and paste... It will not be easy to find text inside those files anyway !

[Horst.Epp]

For such large content searches I use the Windows indexed search.
Using IFilters it delivers instant results for most file types
and I can go to TC with a search result using context menu.
For small trees the PCREserach together with the Oracle files works fine.

[sorcar]

Is there any trick/tool/script/plugin, or a totally different program which can do the search properly?

I used http://www.inforapid.com/html/searchreplace.htm with great satisfaction. This is somewhat dated, but still works better than any other program I know of.