SearchMyFiles
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SearchMyFiles is a non-indexing portable alternative to the standard "Search For Files And Folders" module of Windows. It allows you to easily search files in your system by wildcard, by last modified/created/last accessed time, by file attributes, by file content...
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- Free
- Proprietary
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- Windows
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UI is not the most convenient and is quite dated, but the app just works! Does its job without complaints.
I reported a bug to the author of this software but he didn't reply nor correct it. Later I found a second bug but why should I report it? Better to switch to another software.
Fast effective for finding duplicates. Doesn't do fuzzy matches. I don't see group delete options like older/newer.
Not sure why this isn't an alternative to applications like FileSeek, InfoRapid Search & Replace or dnGREP.
Is it because you haven't submitted it yet? :P
Great application.
But UI/UX could be massively improved and simplified, such as hiding non-frequent options under an 'advanced' drop-down panel or 'more options' or such.
Another major downside is that when a text string search is found, it tells you the binary position in the file, which is utterly useless, and doesn't state the line number.
Another major negative is that it doesn't show preview of the lines where it found the match, such as the first few lines before and after - instead only showing a list of files where the match was found. And if I remember correctly, opening the listed file also doesn't take you to the line where search text was found.
A better alternative is BareGrepPro - although unfortunately it's not free, and has a 5-min timer before it auto-closes.
This application could not compare duplicate files using hashing.
SMF-Search My File can do deduplication. SMF is better.