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Re: st: Windows (& Vista) will not search within do files.


From   "Joe McCrary" <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: Windows (& Vista) will not search within do files.
Date   Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:55:31 -0400

Have you taken a look at Google desktop?

http://desktop.google.com/

I'm not sure how well it will work with Vista (I haven't made the switch yet).

On 6/21/07, Paul Seed <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear all,

I am running Stata version 9.2 (fully updated) on a Dell Latitude with
Microsoft Windows XP (5.1 build 2600)..

Whenever I open Windows explorer & try to search for a do file, containing a
particular piece of text, no files are found. This is so however many
do files there actualy are with  the relevant text.  This does not affect any
other file type; indeed changing the extension to (e.g.) txt "solves" the
problem, and files can then be found.  .  But changing the extensions on all my
do files to something else is not feasible even as a work-around.

There does not seem to It appears that this OS does not search inside a file
with 2-letter extensions.

As this is Windows bug, StataCorp is unable to help & there is no FAQ about it.
However, I am informed that the problem also comes up in Vista
Does anyone know a work-around that does not involve uninstalling Windows?
(e.g. another applicaiton that will search inside do files).


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