Re: searching old Microsoft word files for text string
windsurferLA wrote:
>
> Thanks for suggestion. My recollection is that I have tried Ransack in
> the past, but took it off my machine because of an incompatibility
> problem. Another person suggested the windows FindStr utility. I expect
> it is much much much slower, but unlike Ransack, it does not use
> computer resources when it is not needed. Given my infrequent need to
> search old files, I'm going to try it first.
>
> 3c273 wrote:
>> There is a freeware program called Agent Ransack that will do what you
>> want.
>> Google it.
>> Louis
>>
>> "windsurferLA" <ps144nyc@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:47ea7e93$0$1085$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>>> Every once in a while I need to retrieve information that I know exists
>>> somewhere on the hard drive of my machine in an old Microsoft Word2.0
>>> file. My tests seem to indicate that both with WinXP/SR2 and Copernic
>>> search functions no longer find text strings within the old Word2.0
>>> files. How might I identify a file containing the desired text string?
>>> Speed is not an issue, as I can let the machine search all night long.
>>>
>>> Windsurfer LA
>>
>>
I've been using Agent Ransack for several years. It's much faster and
more comprehensive than Windows Search. It doesn't run in the background
at all as far as I can tell.
Bill