Vista - Is Windows Vista index-based full-text search powerful enough?

LOL, let alone the fact that he couldn't open and read them after finding
them if he didn't have a reader ;-0


"Dennis" <dn@nospam.dk> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 09:33:56 +1100, <.> wrote:
>
>>If one needs to install acrobat for it to work then it DOES NOT do it by
>>default.
>
>
> Dohh....
>
> The OP asked about if it could index PDF's.
> Don't you think it's highly likely that he's got either the Acrobat
> reader or Pro installed ??
>
> Sigh.....
>
>

Acrobat 5, which works quickly, can open any PDF I've seen and I see a lot
every day. Installing it doesn't enable indexing of contents.
"Geta Klew" <nospam@noreply.com> wrote in message
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> LOL, let alone the fact that he couldn't open and read them after finding
> them if he didn't have a reader ;-0
>
>
> "Dennis" <dn@nospam.dk> wrote in message
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>> On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 09:33:56 +1100, <.> wrote:
>>
>>>If one needs to install acrobat for it to work then it DOES NOT do it by
>>>default.
>>
>>
>> Dohh....
>>
>> The OP asked about if it could index PDF's.
>> Don't you think it's highly likely that he's got either the Acrobat
>> reader or Pro installed ??
>>
>> Sigh.....
>>
>>
>
>

On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 18:15:07 -0500, "Geta Klew" <nospam@noreply.com>
wrote:

>LOL, let alone the fact that he couldn't open and read them after finding
>them if he didn't have a reader ;-0
>

Yeah.... ha ha

Well one never knows, if there is a way to construct impossible
scenarios, someone will do it just for the heck of it.

Regards

On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 10:22:12 +1100, <.> wrote:

>Acrobat 5, which works quickly, can open any PDF I've seen and I see a lot
>every day. Installing it doesn't enable indexing of contents.

I havent myself checkedmarked PDF in indexing options for file types
to be indexed. I just checked it now, and PDF file type are set to be
indexed with properties AND contents.
I did nothing, but installing Acrobat Reader and adding my drive to
indexed locations.

But, hey, my Vista could be broken


Regards

The deault is file properties only. The plain text ilter has no utility with
pdfs.
"Dennis" <dn@nospam.dk> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 10:22:12 +1100, <.> wrote:
>
>>Acrobat 5, which works quickly, can open any PDF I've seen and I see a lot
>>every day. Installing it doesn't enable indexing of contents.
>
> I havent myself checkedmarked PDF in indexing options for file types
> to be indexed. I just checked it now, and PDF file type are set to be
> indexed with properties AND contents.
> I did nothing, but installing Acrobat Reader and adding my drive to
> indexed locations.
>
> But, hey, my Vista could be broken
>
>
> Regards

On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 11:07:31 +1100, <.> wrote:

>The deault is file properties only. The plain text ilter has no utility with
>pdfs.

OMG...

Who is talking about plain text ??

Whatever. Never mind. It wont do it by default, you are right.

My installation just dont know that

I think this is the point where i have to rewind my old VHS tapes.
Twice.


Regards

Dennis <dn@nospam.dk> wrote:

>On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 10:22:12 +1100, <.> wrote:
>
>>Acrobat 5, which works quickly, can open any PDF I've seen and I see a lot
>>every day. Installing it doesn't enable indexing of contents.
>
>I havent myself checkedmarked PDF in indexing options for file types
>to be indexed. I just checked it now, and PDF file type are set to be
>indexed with properties AND contents.
> I did nothing, but installing Acrobat Reader and adding my drive to
>indexed locations.
>
>But, hey, my Vista could be broken

I do have Acrobat Reader installed but not the most up-to-date
version. It is not Acrobat 5 but Acrobat 6.0. Will it work with this
version of Acrobat Reader? Or which one is the minimum requirement?

Peter

On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:22:55 +0100, Peter Frank
<peter_frankde@yahoo.de> wrote:
>
>I do have Acrobat Reader installed but not the most up-to-date
>version. It is not Acrobat 5 but Acrobat 6.0. Will it work with this
>version of Acrobat Reader? Or which one is the minimum requirement?

I don't know. I just got the latest version of Acrobat reader of
Adobe's site. Probably you can find info on compatible versions on
their site...


Regards

On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 10:22:55 +0100, Peter Frank
<peter_frankde@yahoo.de> wrote:

>OK, good to hear. However, what about extensive adding, moving,
>copying and deleting of files? My scenario would regularly include a
>lot of these operations, so I wonder whether this would slow my
>computer considerably due to the re-indexing that Windows Vista would
>have to perform. By the way, does Windows Vista re-index immediately
>after any changes in a location marked for indexing or only when it is
>idle or ...?
>
>Peter

Really don't know, don't move my files around a lot.

I believe it runs after boot, and indexes what's changed, don't know
if it runs mid session on changes ?

Regards

It stays out of your way and only operates at idle time. It takes a while to
get the thing built initially. But once it's built the maintenance seems
pretty minor. I use it heavily. (In fact, one of the main reasons I hate
going back to XP now is because I'm spoiled and sick-and-tired of having to
navigate all over the place all the time like I've been doing since the DOS
era. And I'm sick of those stupid Search Companion searches too ;-).

But now that I've offended all of the Search Companion fans.

I don't know what you mean by "extensive" file management. But as long as
you're using reasonably fast hardware you shouldn't have any problem with
the index keeping up in the background.

If you're going to load a zillion document files onto Vista right after
installation, let it sit idle whenever you can for a while. Because that
first step of building the index is (as you might imagine) pretty labor
intensive and takes some time.

(If you've ever written a search index type of thing, you can only imagine
what a nightmare it must be in Vista where you have to worry about umpteen
jillion file types being impinged upon by umpteen million programs from
umpteen thousand software vendors, each of whom makes up their own rules on
the fly).

"Peter Frank" <peter_frankde@yahoo.de> wrote in message
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> Dennis <dn@nospam.dk> wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:11:31 +0100, Peter Frank
>><peter_frankde@yahoo.de> wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I have a couple of questions about the new index-based full-text
>>>search of Windows Vista.
>>>
>>>1) Is it powerful enough to handle huge amounts of data consisting of
>>>PDF documents, Word, Excel and Powerpoint files (around 20 GB)? Or
>>
>>I have indexing enabled on my data drive.
>>It contains approx 44Gb total.
>>16Gb is documents, mostly pdf's and other smaller files.
>>The rest is mainly lager files > 10Mb in size.
>>
>>And it works like a charm , that is, when it was done indexing )
>>
>>Search result are VERY fast. I'm really impressed, i was kind 'a
>>expecting to having to turn indexing off for that drive again.
>
> OK, good to hear. However, what about extensive adding, moving,
> copying and deleting of files? My scenario would regularly include a
> lot of these operations, so I wonder whether this would slow my
> computer considerably due to the re-indexing that Windows Vista would
> have to perform. By the way, does Windows Vista re-index immediately
> after any changes in a location marked for indexing or only when it is
> idle or ...?
>
> Peter