
FileLocator Pro
Reviewed September, 2010 by
Neat Net Tricks
What’s It Do?
The program promises super-fast multi-thread searching with
highly efficient algorithms. It searches multiple networked
computers concurrently; displays found text in highlighted
keywords and an internal viewer; supports Microsoft Office
formats, PDF, Open Office, and WordPerfect; and locates lost
emails, contacts, calendar items, etc. It can be used as a
replacement or companion to the standard Windows Find.
Does it do what it promises?
Reviewer 1 - Name Withheld By Request: Yes and
no. It is an immensely powerful and flexible program that
rightly claims to "make it possible to dig out information in
even the most obscure file formats." It also claims to be "fast
and efficient," but compared with desktop search programs that
index one's files, FileLocator Pro is often very slow.
Reviewer 2 - Mark Snyder: Yes. The Web site's
primary claim is that the program "will dig out information in
even the most obscure file formats" which I can attest to. For
the most part, however, rather than making a lot of unsupported
claims and marketing hyperbole, the developer (MythicSoft)
allows reviews and customer testimonials to speak for the
product.
Reviewer 3 - Name Withheld By Request: The
product's Web site states that this program will enable me to
search through all my important data and it can search through
my networked drives. This program will deliver all that it
promises provided one's system falls within MythicSoft's defined
parameters for data and hardware.
Reviewer 4 - Dana Bostick: Yes, File Locator
Pro worked very efficiently on everything I attempted to search
for. It performs "rules-based searches" that are immediately
viewable in an internal viewer if desired. Its strength is being
able to find a missing file with very little information if one
only remembers approximately when it was created and some of the
words it contains.
Reviewer 5 - Peter Royle: Yes, it does to some
extent. It is very useful when some of the "text strings" inside
a file are specified, but when I do not remember the file name.
On the other hand, when I am able to specify part of the file
name, FileLocator Pro is slower in providing results than the
program that I currently use in place of the file search feature
in Win XP.
Reviewer 6 - Dana Cardwell: Yes, FileLocator
Pro is a very fast, flexible and accurate search program that is
far superior to the Windows OS search engine even with indexing
turned on.
Was it easy to install?
Reviewer 1 - Name Withheld By Request:
Installation was easy but off-putting and somewhat confusing. I
had no problem downloading and installing the relatively small
(4.6 MB) file. The EULA (end user license agreement) says that a
single license entitles one user to use the program on one
computer. No one else may use the software, nor can the
purchaser transfer the rights to the software. There is a 90-day
warranty. Support is available only by email, and all requests
must be written in English. Moreover, "you agree that Mythicsoft
may include your name and corporate logo in its published
customer list." This is outrageous! Whatever happened to
privacy?
Though the EULA states unequivocally that the software may be
used only on one machine, I found to my surprise that
FileLocator Pro's Knowledge Base tells a very different story.
It quotes the EULA, but then goes on to say the following:
"Since we understand that many people have more than one
computer we do not mind if you install FileLocator Pro on up to
three computers with a single license as long as you are the
sole user of those computers (e.g. this exception does not apply
to servers or shared computers)."
Reviewer 2 - Mark Snyder: Yes. It is a
reasonably small 5.12MB file that took less than 10 seconds to
download on a fairly fast broadband connection; however, it will
require a more sizeable 13.9MB of disc space. Installation and
set-up was smooth and easy using a standard point-and-click
Wizard. There was a rather standard EULA (End User License
Agreement) allowing for use of the program on a single machine,
a 30-day trial, a generous 90-day money back guarantee, and
written in plain English with a minimum of legalese. The one
irregularity was the statement that by agreeing to the license I
was also agreeing to the use of my name in their advertising. I
strongly object to giving carte blanche the use of my name. If
or when my name is going to be used, I want to know, when and
where and how. The program uninstalled easily, leaving only one
folder and three Registry entries.
Reviewer 3 - Name Withheld By Request:
Installation was very simple and straightforward.
Double-clicking the installer file and clicking the Next button
a few times is all that's needed to install this program.
Reviewer 4 - Dana Bostick: Yes, it installed
very quickly. The installed size was approximately 16 MB. It is
a "one license, one user application" and can only be installed
on one computer per license. A 30-day trial is available.
Reviewer 5 - Peter Royle: Yes. It is a standard
Windows installation that allowed me to place the program and
its icons where I want them. The EULA (End Users Licence
Agreement), although not too long or complex, has the usual
legal disclaimers. In particular, use of the program is limited
to a single individual on a single machine. This is very
restrictive, as many have more than one regularly used computer,
often sharing or synchronizing their work files on both machines
and needing a license per computer. It is also often the case
that one family computer will be used by several, and this
license would limit use of the program by a single individual on
that computer.
Reviewer 6 - Dana Cardwell: Yes, the 4.66 MB
downloaded exe file installed without any problems or conflicts.
Registration was a simple copy and paste function with immediate
recognition of my registration code.
Good points
Reviewer 1 - Name Withheld By Request: First of
all, it is important to note that FileLocator Pro will search
not only for file and folder names but also for the content
contained within files. I use a superb, free search tool called
Everything almost every day to locate files and folders, but
Everything and other similar programs will not look inside a
file as will FileLocator Pro.
Probably FileLocator Pro's most impressive strength is the
precision of the search it makes possible. I found I could use
almost any detail I knew to narrow down the search. I could
stipulate that FileLocator Pro limit its search to certain file
extensions or exclude file extensions that I knew would be
irrelevant. I could also tell it to look only at files created
before or after a particular date or within a certain range of
dates, and/or to look only at files that fall within a certain
size range. FileLocator Pro can also process regular expressions
and the Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT, NEAR, and LIKE, and
Boolean operators can also be combined with regular expressions.
Although I did not include file attributes or file hashes in my
searches, I could have, since FileLocator Pro can handle these
and more. According to the Help information, it also supports
Active Scripting "to customize the search engine's file name and
contents matching algorithms," but a quick look at some sample
scripts told me I was out of my depth. Fortunately, FileLocator
Pro works very well without my using Active Scripting.
When FileLocator Pro finds the sought-after text or string, it
shows it highlighted in a contents pane, along with several
surrounding lines and the line numbers. The user thus does not
need to open a document to examine the information, though one
can easily do so if one wishes. FileLocator Pro will open the
document in the editor of one's choice.
Another good point about FileLocator Pro is that it does not
index one's files, and thus it is not continually using the
computer's hard drive. Also, it can find even the most recently
added files, a problem for some search engines that can only
find files that are already in the index. In addition, indexing
takes up room, sometimes substantial amounts. The index from one
desktop search engine on my computer currently takes up 1.5 GB
of space, and that's after I pared it down.
Desktop search programs that create indexes have one big
advantage: they're usually much faster than programs without
indexes. I have found, however, that at times FileLocator Pro
can produce results when my index-dependent desktop search
programs could not. Early on in my testing of FileLocator Pro, I
did a search for all files containing the Spanish word "drogas."
To my surprise, one of the files FileLocator Pro identified was
an .mp3 file! At first, I thought it was an error, but it turned
out that the .mp3 file also included a written text, perhaps so
that someone could play the audio file and read the words (on an
iPod, for example) at the same time. Neither of the two indexed
search programs found this file. More recently, I wanted to know
whether I had used a particular background graphic in any .html
file I had made. The background graphic's file name appeared
only in the HTML coding, but FileLocator Pro went through all my
.html files and found one that used that background graphic. To
my surprise, when I tried the same search in my two
index-dependent search programs, both came up empty. They also
were unable to find .html files in which the HTML coding "ò"
appeared, whereas FileLocator Pro found the files and showed me
exactly where the coding appeared in just a few seconds. One
final example: I wanted to find the name of a DVD that I owned
and had copied to my hard drive a few days earlier. I couldn't
remember the name nor even the file extension. I knew that the
version on my hard drive was likely to have at least one file
larger than 100MB. I also knew that it was likely to be
somewhere in Documents and Settings\username or one of the
subdirectories, so I asked FileLocator Pro to find a file in
that approximate location with a size >100MB and a "last
modified" date within the last three days. FileLocator Pro found
the files in two seconds.
One other important strength of FileLocator Pro is its excellent
tech support. I had several questions, and each of my messages
was answered within a few hours of my sending it. All the
responses were clear, detailed, and very helpful.
Reviewer 2 - Mark Snyder: I am a bit obsessive
about the file systems on my computer. They are very organized
not only by folder, name, and location, but by color as well. My
file location needs have been easily met by FileLocator's
excellent freeware sibling, Agent Ransack. Anyone not so
organized with files and folders spread everywhere - many
unnamed - and who are tired of waiting for Microsoft to deliver
anything other than the most basic search functions, will love
FileLocator Pro.
All file search tools do much the same thing: search the
computer for files one cannot find; however, some do not do this
as well as others and few, if any, as well as FileLocator. I
purposely created a number of dummy files and folders using
obscure file formats, duplicate names (or nearly duplicate), and
spread them in bizarre locations within my system. I then put
file locator to the task of finding them. In every instances, it
found my "hidden" files and did so with remarkable speed while
using minimal resources. A few of the features that I found
especially useful are:
An easy to use and intuitive GUI or user interface. There
are no complex terms to target one's search as there are in so
many similar programs. Instead, the user is provided easy to
understand check boxes to set such variables as size, date, and
so on;
It searches through physical files, not an index created
from files, so it provides the most accurate search;
If, as in the case of my purposely obscure hidden files, there
is little to go on as to the file's name or contents, there is
an Expression Wizard that will help create a search string. I
tried one search where all I provided was that the first letter
of the file was b and the last letter was m, n, or s but I was
not sure which, and it found the file in a reasonably short
time. Similarly, I searched for a file and provided nothing (no
name, no location, no extension) other than a specific phrase
within the file and while it took longer to literally search
through every file on my computer, it very impressively found
the file. It has more advanced scripting abilities as well as an
expert mode for the advanced user;
There is a handy preview feature using a built in file
viewer that allows quickly finding the appropriate file without
having to actual open it;
It integrates into the Windows shell for right-click
accessibility; and,
Support is available via a support ticket/email procedure
as well as through a well-written and relatively thorough help
file.
Reviewer 3 - Name Withheld By Request:
FileLocator Pro provides a wealth of options which gives one
granular control in being able to root out those hard-to-find
files. It supports the ability to search within many document
types and within numerous archive formats such as RAR, ARJ, ZIP,
and ISO. FileLocator Pro is able to search through large amounts
of files very quickly.
Reviewer 4 - Dana Bostick: This is a very
powerful program with the capability to search using many
different criteria. It offers two search interfaces, expert mode
and normal mode. Both modes allow one to fine-tune the search
criteria, using various parameters, selectable by checkbox or
dropdown menu. The "expert mode" offers a significantly higher
level of detail. The normal or "non-expert" mode also offers a
search Wizard to help construct the search. A great feature of
the search wizards (and the little "Help" box at the end of each
line in the expert mode), is that it provides examples of
possible criteria and what each will do so that one can better
craft the search string to find what is looked for. It is
extremely fast. FileLocator Pro checked 791 items (38.31 MB). in
less than one second. Another search checked 16,745 items (9.17
GB) in 0.5 seconds.
Mythicsoft touts this application as an addition to or a
replacement for Windows Search function. I strongly agree.
Windows search, and others such as Google desktop search, depend
on "indexing" files for faster searching. This process does
consume some of the available resources and computer cycles and
will impact computer use. File Locator Pro does not require
indexing and is blazingly fast.
In the "Expert mode", the level of detail is truly amazing. It
would allow me to fine-tune my search down to levels I hadn't
even thought of. By using selections on the "Options" tab, I can
choose to search line by line or across the whole file.
Using the date tab allows me to select criteria such as
date modified, date created, date last accessed, and either
before or after that date. By using the small calendar icon, the
date and time search can be refined to the exact time specified
in hours and minutes and seconds or relative to a specific time
frame like the start of the day, or end of an hour, etc.;
The "Attributes" tab allows one to sort by file
attribute, such as archived, compressed, hidden, system,
encrypted, etc.;
The "Documents" tab allows restricting the search to only
certain types of files such as: .doc, .pdf, .xlc,
.URL, .EML and several others; and,
The "Compressed Files" tab allows selecting one or more
of 23 different file compression formats to be searched.
Reviewer 5 - Peter Royle: Over the years, I
have used four or five desktop file search programs that try to
locate files by searching inside them for text that I have
specified. Most of them limit their searches to the data
produced by the most widely-used programs and their associated
extensions. I tend to stay away from these programs, preferring
instead to use software produced by smaller, independent
developers and producers. So many of the extensions attached to
their data files are not covered by these other search programs.
My PIM (Personal Information Manager), email client, and a
database program are all "off the beaten track". As I use these
programs extensively, the other search programs have not lasted
for a long time on my computer. FileLocator Pro supports
searching inside a very large number of file types. In spite of
the fact that it does not list my particular file types,
FileLocator Pro is the first desktop search program that can
successfully find files produced by all these programs. This
fact alone puts FileLocator Pro far above any of the others that
I have ever tried and subsequently abandoned.
FileLocator Pro offers two different GUI's (Graphical User
Interface). It will default to the simpler opening screen which
includes a Search wizard to help the user you to specify what he
is looking for. The Expert Mode allows all options available in
the program to speed up the search by defining various
parameters to narrow down the search criteria. As a simple
example, if the user wants to limit the search by date and time,
FileLocator Pro will then ignore the files in its search which
fall outside those parameters.
For those who wish to build more complex criteria for their
search, there are a number of tools available in the program.
Wizards can be used to achieve some of these results. There is
even a "scripting" feature which will allow programming a series
of commands to spell out very exact search parameters.
I have shortcuts to my most-frequently-accessed directories on
my desktop. Some of these directories contain scores of folders
and sub-folders, and hundreds of files. In fact, one of the
shortcuts is to a 300 GB drive where I keep my data files. Most
of my searches will be somewhere on that drive or in one of the
folders "shortcutted" on my desktop. Normally, to look for files
in one of these "main" directories, I need to click through
various levels to the folder, then call up the desktop search
program. FileLocator Pro simplifies this process by including
itself as an item in the right-click Explorer context-menu. What
makes it even easier is that by right-clicking on any of the
desktop short-cut icons, FileLocator Pro will come into action
as if I were performing that action on the folder itself.
The Support Page on the Mythicsoft web-site is well laid out and
is a very useful reference. The Support Section is completely
dedicated to the program. There is only one small reference on
how to purchase the program -- unlike many help files that place
references to purchasing and sales prominently at the beginning.
Not surprisingly, the support pages have an excellent search
feature that I used a number of times to find answers to any
questions that I had. An additional touch that I particularly
like in the Knowledge Base is a small "Discuss" box on all the
pages, allowing users to add their own comments on any topic in
the knowledge base. This indicates that the developers value the
input of users, always a good sign if one is to invest in a
software product.
Reviewer 6 - Dana Cardwell: FileLocator Pro,
like any program that is new to a user, will only be a good
program for that user if he/she can operate the program to
obtain the results that they desire. FileLocator Pro uses two
methods to achieve this goal, an excellent detailed help file
and intuitive GUI that is self explanatory to most users
familiar with search criteria. I was able to use FileLocator Pro
immediately after installing and only referred to the help files
when testing some of FileLocator Pro's unique features. An
important part of a user's ability to operate a program properly
is answers to those questions that arise while trying to
accomplish a task with the program. This is where customer
support comes into the picture. FileLocator Pro excels in
customer support. All my questions to customer support were
answered directly and in a very timely fashion. One question I
emailed on a Sunday was answered within a few hours which is
quite unique as I have found very few software companies that
offered customer support on a weekend.
FileLocator Pro is a much faster search program than the search
function that comes installed with Windows. In my search
comparisons of FileLocator Pro to Windows search function, I
indexed my HDD to allow the Windows search function to operate
at top speed. Even with the index function engaged, FileLocator
Pro's speed was much better than Window's. These comparison
searches showed the larger the searched database, the larger the
difference in search time; and, the more complex the search, the
larger the difference in search time. In one search for a unique
word contained within a document, Windows' search engine took 10
minutes 44 seconds to find the document while FileLocator Pro
found the document in 1 minute 7 seconds. This time difference
is an eternity to a user sitting in front of his/her PC waiting
for results and is justification for purchasing FileLocator Pro
Other features of FileLocator Pro add to this justification as
well.
Finding a document on one's HDD is an easy task as long as the
name of the document is remembered. I have so many documents
that often I forget the name of the document and only remember
part of what is in the document I'm looking for. FileLocator Pro
will not only look for key words or phrases contained within the
document but also display the context of where those words
appear in the document, so one can find the document wanted
without having to open each document that contains those words.
I found this to be an extremely time saving feature.
FileLocator Pro will search file names or key words in emails.
Windows search function will search in emails too, but only in
those emails saved to the HDD in the .eml format. FileLocator
Pro will search in emails contained in the Outlook Express
storage folder while the emails are saved in the compressed .dbx
format, which Windows search function cannot do. While Outlook
Express does have a search function, such a search is limited to
knowing the email's folder that it was stored in, the name or
subject matter, and Outlook Express has to be open. FileLocator
Pro has no such limits and works with Outlook Express closed.
I really like the context menu additions for FileLocator Pro.
This makes it very easy when trying to find a file in a folder.
I needed only to right click the folder, select FileLocator Pro,
and FileLocator Pro opens with the name of the folder in the
Look In: box already for me to input the search criteria I
desire to find my document in that folder. This makes for
extremely fast searches.
Weak points
Reviewer 1 - Name
Withheld By Request: FileLocator Pro's biggest weak point is
that it is often very slow, especially when compared with
desktop search programs that index the computer's files. I asked
FileLocator Pro to find all files containing the Spanish word "acueductos."
I told it to look only in my rather large Español directory and
its many subdirectories. The search took almost 21 minutes and
turned up two files, a .pdf file and an .mp3 file. I ran the
same search in an index-dependent desktop search program: it
found the .pdf file in less than a second. It did not find the
.mp3 file, but the overwhelming majority of my .mp3 files do not
have readable text, and I'd be unlikely to look for text there.
Indeed, with this in mind, I ran another search for "acueductos"
with FileLocator Pro, this time telling it to look in the same
place but to look only for text files (.txt, .doc, .wpd, and .pdf).
The search was faster than before, but it still took FileLocator
Pro four minutes 17 seconds to find a file that the index-using
search program found in less than a second, and I didn't have to
tell that program where to look or what kind of file to look
for.
Because FileLocator Pro does not index the computer's files and
thus has to search the computer each time, its performance
depends heavily on the user's ability to provide efficient
instructions. This may require the user to spend a good bit of
time becoming familiar with the search engine's wealth of
features and how they work. Some may find fine-tuning
FileLocator Pro's searches an interesting challenge; however, I
suspect that many may be unhappy with the time and effort needed
to create efficient searches. FileLocator Pro does provide two
interfaces, including one for "the novice computer user who
doesn't want to deal with some of the more advanced searching
features." Frankly, though, the power of FileLocator Pro lies in
these more advanced searching features. Users who would prefer
not to have to deal with them would probably be better off using
an indexing search engine and/or the excellent free version of
FileLocator Pro, Agent Ransack (also called FileLocator Lite,
apparently in response to some users' reluctance to use a
program named "ransack").
Mythicsoft's coercive insistence that users must agree to the
company including their "name and corporate logo in its
published customer list" is a definite disincentive.
Reviewer 2 - Mark Snyder: I found no particular flaw in the
program itself. I would like to see a bit better support for
email searching as, at present, it cannot search email without
exporting them to a text file first. While my experience with
support was excellent, I would encourage the developer to state
a turn around time for support requests.
Reviewer 3 - Name Withheld By Request:
Unfortunately, MythicSoft's supported document types are just
that: documents. There is no support for any multimedia file
formats at all. MP3s, Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC), video
and picture files are all files that FileLocator Pro blissfully
ignores. Performing searches on ID3 v2.x tags in MP3s and Vorbis
Comments within FLAC files only resulted in an empty search
results window.
MythicSoft's Web site states that one must step up to the much
higher-priced FileLocator Network to concurrently search
multiple networked computers. I own a network-attached storage
(NAS) that houses two drives that are mapped to separate drive
letters. FileLocator Pro refuses to let me search both of those
NAS drives at once, so in FileLocator Pro's mind, these two
drives must be "multiple networked computers." This is a real
down-side for me since I store most of my archival files on my
NAS drives those are the two drives I would need to search for
things the most.
Reviewer 4 - Dana Bostick: This is actually a
professional-level program that is not really targeted to the
average computer user. Although the average person can use it,
it is overkill in my opinion. Although it does have a
"Non-expert" mode, even that has a rather steep learning curve
in order to utilize all of its capabilities.
Reviewer 5 - Peter Royle: My most serious
complaint about FileLocator Pro is that it is very slow in
producing results for my search requests. The data drive that I
search most frequently is very large, with almost 100 GB of data
currently stored there. Unfortunately, when I am searching for a
file I usually do not recall much information about it. So it is
not practical for me to use many of the filters, scripting and
other search narrowing down features that might help speed up
the search. In one case, I specified the text that I was looking
and the search took over an hour as it searched through the
complete 100 GB of files. During that time, my other work slowed
down considerably as FileLocator Pro needed a lot of the
computer resources to carry out its search.
Many of the other desktop search programs will build an index of
the contents of all the disks, folders and files and will use
this index to speed up their searches. Even the Windows search
function will index drives for that purpose (and this feature
can be enabled or disabled in the drives' properties.)
FileLocator Pro does not use indexing, and explains its reasons
in its knowledge base.
Obviously, this is a policy decision on the part of the
developers, and clearly, they have thought it through carefully.
It still remains, however, as a handicap in many of the searches
that I have conducted using FileLocator Pro. Perhaps it would be
possible for the program to have an indexing feature, which
could be referenced or not, depending on the user's particular
needs.
I already have a very fast search program which I use frequently
when I am looking for a file, based on a file-name search, i.e.
not based on text within the file. Neither Search GT nor
FileLocator Pro create file indexes. In spite of that, Search GT
is almost instantaneous compared with FileLocator Pro. For
example, using part of a file name as the search criteria,
Search GT found 17 files in 0.9 sec on my 300 GB data drive,
whereas FileLocator Pro found the same 17 files, but took 5
minutes, 49 seconds.
Reviewer 6 - Dana Cardwell: I could find no
weakness with FileLocator Pro. I would make one suggestion to
its developers. I wish there was a setting in the options to
make FileLocator Pro open full screen. I found the extra screen
size very helpful when doing word or phrase searches contained
within the document and displaying more of the surrounding text
within the document.
Other comments
Reviewer 1 - Name Withheld By Request:
FileLocator Pro costs $39.95. A number of FileLocator Pro's
features are also available in the company's free version, Agent
Ransack 2010. A description of Agent Ransack and a comparison of
the two programs can be found
here.
Reviewer 2 - Mark Snyder: While this program
can easily be used by a novice, its real strength lies in its
Expert or Advanced mode where highly customizable searches and
search strings can be initiated. This is a well designed and
solid program that integrated seamlessly into Windows, and one
that I can easily recommend.
Reviewer 3 - Name Withheld By Request:
Multimedia use is not the future of computers. It is the
present. Many people use their computers for graphics, movies,
and music every day. Many companies use their corporate
computers for those exact same purposes every day in an attempt
to capture those consumers' business. MythicSoft would do well
to realize this and the fact that many homes have many devices
on a network whether they be desktops, laptops, or even
multimedia devices of varying types. If the FileLocator line of
products cannot accomplish what these consumers and companies
are looking for, they will go find a product that can.
Reviewer 4 - Dana Bostick: Unchecking the
"Expert User" checkbox presents a simple interface with only two
tabs; Main & Options. The Main tab offers a field for "File
name", "Containing text" & "Look in" which tells the program
which location to search such as an entire drive (any drive that
is attached) or only specific directories or folders. There is
also a "Search Wizard" that will walk the user through the
process of searching for a file.
File Locator Pro has the ability to use Boolean search terms
such as; AND, NOT, OR, LIKE, & NEAR and can also use wildcards
such as "*" and "?" to do a "fuzzy search" and include parts of
words or single letters. Careful crafting of a search query, can
significantly reduce the clutter returned by a normal search,
which could be thousands of files. Crafting a search query using
Boolean operators and other criteria can pare this down to only
a few relevant files. All search results may be exported to a
standard text file or to the clipboard.
Reviewer 5 - Peter Royle: The developers of
FileLocator Pro offer a free desktop search program called Agent
Ransack, which is a well-featured desktop search program.
FileLocator Pro offers a 30-day trial period to see how the full
program works, along with a 60-day money-back guarantee. A
Comparison Index on the Web site explains the extra features
offered by FileLocator Pro. In spite of my concerns about the
absence of a file-indexing option, I am impressed with
FileLocator Pro. For those who could use the extra features of
this program, I would recommend it over all the other more
well-known, but less feature-rich desktop search programs.
Reviewer 6 - Dana Cardwell: None.
Will you continue to use it?
Reviewer 1 - Name
Withheld By Request: Yes, for searches not easily performed by
an indexing search engine. However, for most routine searches, I
prefer the speed and ease of a desktop search engine that uses
indexing.
Reviewer 2 - Mark Snyder: No. Not because it is
not an excellent program but simply because I really have no
need for it due to my highly organized file system.
Reviewer 3 - Name Withheld By Request: I wish I
could say yes, but with the current lack of multimedia searching
and crippled network features, my only option is to regretfully
sit this program off to the side until one day I can return to
using it when MythicSoft hopefully starts offering these
features.
Reviewer 4 - Dana Bostick: Yes, this is a
"keeper" due to its ability to use extremely fine search detail
without requiring an index of the entire drive first, as many
other search programs do.
Reviewer 5 - Peter Royle: Yes.
Reviewer 6 - Dana Cardwell: Yes, it will become
the main search program on my PC.
Mythicsoft,
developers of FileLocator Pro, responded: Many thanks
for that very interesting reading. We're currently working on
version 6.0 and all this feedback will be taken on board. I'll
make sure our license agreement is updated to show our actual
policy regarding usage, i.e., you CAN install the program on
multiple machines if it's only for your use. Please pass on my
thanks to all your reviewers. |
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