User cannot search files using "a word or phrase in the file"
I have a user who need to be able to search the contents of a folder using Windows XP search but she needs to be able to search by "A word or phrase in the file:". All of the files are PDF documents and I have confirmed she has Read & Execute permissions to the files.
The user is running Windows XP SP3 and Adobe Reader 9.3, the files server is Windows 2003. I search using the same criteria and find the files but I am also an admin.
Any idea's if there are additional permissions required to search based on file content?
The user is running Windows XP SP3 and Adobe Reader 9.3, the files server is Windows 2003. I search using the same criteria and find the files but I am also an admin.
Any idea's if there are additional permissions required to search based on file content?
lobo797
You could check to see if it's a permissions issue by giving her temporary admin rights. You may need to go into Advanced > Special Permissions to get the control you need.
Try placing the user in the Power Users group and see if that makes a difference. This may not be the best solution, but it will help point in the right direction.
ASKER
Those were good suggestions. I gave the user full access to the network folder and its contents but still no luck. Its odd because other users who have full access to the folder can search and find the files just fine. Could it be a problem with her Adobe reader installation possibly?
Has this user been able to do this before?
Here is one microsoft paper that might shed some light:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309173
Here is one microsoft paper that might shed some light:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309173
ASKER
She has never tried this type of search before so I don't know really.
Thank you for the tips and link to that document. I upgraded the user from Adobe Reader 7 to Reader 9.3 and re-enabled some of the additional Adobe features on start up (Adobe speed launcher, and two others). I advised when she reboots to try searching again to see if it was a Adobe problem (files not registerested correclty like your link suggested). She canno reboot right now so I will post an update once I have one.
Thanks!
Thank you for the tips and link to that document. I upgraded the user from Adobe Reader 7 to Reader 9.3 and re-enabled some of the additional Adobe features on start up (Adobe speed launcher, and two others). I advised when she reboots to try searching again to see if it was a Adobe problem (files not registerested correclty like your link suggested). She canno reboot right now so I will post an update once I have one.
Thanks!
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One thing to consider is that this has always been a bit of a niggle in windows and has never really worked properly
the plugin listed by @bartko may help, but without it i would honestly abandon the idea of windows search
for instance, if you create a text file write a couple of words in it then change the extension, the likleyhood is that windows wont find the text
finding text in a pdf document is very hard as it is third party and a but iffy on how the search process is able to read the pdf documents
we did a little experimenting with this a while back, all verions were up to date but the only filetype that we could search text in was basic .txt files, i believe this is a function that microsoft "would like to work" but in reality it doesnt
the plugin listed by @bartko may help, but without it i would honestly abandon the idea of windows search
for instance, if you create a text file write a couple of words in it then change the extension, the likleyhood is that windows wont find the text
finding text in a pdf document is very hard as it is third party and a but iffy on how the search process is able to read the pdf documents
we did a little experimenting with this a while back, all verions were up to date but the only filetype that we could search text in was basic .txt files, i believe this is a function that microsoft "would like to work" but in reality it doesnt
ASKER
This helped alot thanks!