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Posted by Robax on June 24, 2005, 6:22 pm
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I looked for res in that box a couple of times but somehow must have been
blind that evening. Anyhow, that should get it working fine.
Thank you very much for the response.
Regards,
Rob
(It also took me about a month to find my way back to where I even made that
post.... I spent ages digging around the MSND newsgroups for it. I reckon
there needs to be a link from the Searchtool help to the newsgroup)
"Praveen" wrote:
> I can see that ".res" is in the exclusion list in the indexing advanced
> options ( though as you said "temp" is not listed in either in inclusion/
> exclusion list), you can remove this from here and add in "Index file types
> as text" and do "Index Now" , then all your *.res files will be indexed using
> text IFIlter.
>
> "Robax" wrote:
>
> > I have files with the extension .res that I need to index. Adding them to
the
> > list of files to index as text does not get them indexed. .res files are not
> > on the visible exclude list in the options so it should work.
> >
> > My best guess is that the search excludes certain file-types permanently. I
> > note that .tmp files are also not on either the include nor exclude list and
> > they do not get indexed. .res and .tmp files are of course Windows system
> > files and normally of no value to the search, however, .res is an extremely
> > common extension used in many other applications, especially scientific ones
> > and I have tens of thousands of them that I need to be able to index.
> >
> > Can someone from MS confirm this and perhaps suggest a workaround that does
> > not involve renaming all my files to something else?
> >
> > Otherwise this is certainly an excellent tool.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Rob
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