File Manager

I think it doesn't support Windows 10 however you can try to gracefully uninstall and then reinstall.

In the system requirements of the software I found

Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8 computers.

I think it is not compatible with Windows 10.

Below is the System Requirements for Avanquest PowerDesk file manager :

•Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8 computers
•256 MB of RAM
•100 MB of Hard Drive Space
•Internet connection

So either you can wait for release for the supported version of Win 10 else if you are a paid member then can get support through it,.

Thank you!

You're welcome!

Joe,  I bought Total Commander, and am in a crunch to find a file from last summer.  I'm looking for any file in the "1-PERSON" folder that contains the name "Lyon".  Can you please look at my settings (attached) and tell me if I'm doing something wrong?


It's finding JPG files and MTS files (I don't understand how either can have text in the content), but no PDF, DOC, or XLS.  Should I open a new inquiry?

Thanks,

Phil

I just noticed the Office XML box, which solved the Docx problem.  Does Total Commander search PDF?

Hi Phil,

> I don't understand how either can have text in the content

It's simply that the binary string representing the text "Lyon" appears in the file. For example, here's a JPG loaded into Notepad — if you search for "40@", it finds it:


> Does Total Commander search PDF?

Out-of-the-box, no. PDFs are complicated beasts and you need software that can specifically understand them. There are plugins for Total Commander that claim do it, available here:
http://www.ghisler.com/plugins.htm

Note these two in the list:

TextSearch 1.4.3 2011/09/30
32+64 bit Plugin allows to perform full-text search in any documents, which have command-line converters to the plain-text form. Included converters are: RTF, OpenOffice, DOC, DOCX, PDF. Sources included! UVViewSoft

xPDFSearch 1.11 2015/01/11
32+64 bit xPDFSearch can be used to perform fulltext search in PDF files. In addition xPDFSearch provides meta data information from PDF files. Source available.

I can't give them an endorsement, as I don't use either one, because I index and search all of my PDFs with a separate search tool called dtSearch, which, btw, doesn't have the problem discussed above about binary data. When it indexes documents that are mixed binary and text files (such as a PDF Searchable Image file that has been created by scanning and OCR), it has an option to filter out the binary. This makes the index much smaller than other products which also index the binary code (for no good reason). dtSearch has an interesting filtering algorithm that scans a binary file for anything that looks like text using multiple encoding detection methods. The algorithm detects sequences of text with different encodings or formats, and ignores the binary.

But I do use several other Total Commander plugins — the general concept of plugins is great and the ones I use work well, so I suspect one of those two above will work for you. But keep in mind that there needs to be text in the PDF, such as with a PDF Normal or PDF Searchable Image file. If it is an image-only PDF, then searches for text in it won't make sense — you would need to OCR it first in order to create searchable text. Regards, Joe

Thanks again!  I really appreciate it.

You're welcome, Phil. Your question really intrigued me, so I decided to give the xPDFSearch plugin a try (I figured the software with a 2015 date is likely to be a better bet than the one with a 2011 date). It works very nicely! It allows you to search on the metadata fields in the PDFs (Title, Subject, Keywords, Author, etc.), as well as the full Text. Search options are: contains, not contains, equal, not equal, case sensitive, case insensitive, and even a full RegEx search. You may have multiple terms in a search, which may be combined via an AND (all terms must match) or an OR (any term must match). Very cool! Thanks for giving me the inspiration to research it. Regards, Joe