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Posted by jMc777ú3 ï¾ÝŠÇ.²È¨žÉ¢rº,¡û\¢ on May 15, 2005, 10:09 pm
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I'll go over this again just in case one of the devs read this newsgroup.
Please fix this soon!
It's in 2 parts.....
1) If you have a file on your system that has an underscore somewhere in the
filename, the desktop search can't see whatever comes immediately after the
underscore.
Example;
I have a file called msn_messenger.txt
I search for "msn" and MSN DS finds the file and shows me it in the results
pane.
I search for "messenger" and MSN DS *can't* find it.
This is a 'showstopper' for me, I can't use this software if it can't do the
one thing it's supposed to do - find my files!
2) One more thing. MSN DS *can't* find parts of filenames. In order to find
a file with "messenger" in the filename - using "messenger" as my search word
- I have to start typing M-E-S-S....and so on to find it. In other words, I
have to start typing at the beginning of the word. The thing is, sometimes
files aren't named "nicely".
Example; I download an image from the web (say a screenshot of the the new
design of the MSN DS search window) and the person that created it named it
"234254msn54.gif". (Yes I could rename it - but that's not the point! Stay
with me!) I save the file to my "My Pictures" folder and go make some
coffee. I come back and decide to use MSN DS to find the image. I remember
that it had a bunch of numbers in the filename, but it also had "msn" in it -
cool, I'll search for that..............uh oh.......MSN DS can't find the
file!??! Wha...? Yeah that's right, MSN DS can't find the .gif file unless I
start by typing 2-3-4....etc. The first, second and third parts of the
filename.
Am I the only person to find this slightly crazy? The MSN DS devs should
take a good look at the way Copernic DS handles filenames. If I use Copernic
DS to search for "msn" it'll find everything with the letters "msn", if the
letters are in that sequence, no matter where "msn" appears in the filename.
I had hoped that it'd be fixed for the final release but...... :-S
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