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

[Tim <lists@timbp.com>]

Paul Seed 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).
My first thought was "does Google Desktop do this?" I just tried 
searching for text that I know is in a .do file using Google Desktop, 
and got no results (instantly).	

I am using Vista Ultimate (for about 6.5 days now) and Stata 9.2.
I've only owned the computer for a week. It came from Dell with Google 
Desktop installed, and I presume Google Desktop has had sufficient time 
to index all the files I copied across in the first 2 days.

Using the native Vista search for the same text gave the same results as 
Google Desktop (but I had to wait about a minute to get the results, 
after clicking to request Windows to search within files). To the point 
of this thread: neither Google Desktop nor the Vista native search found 
files with .do extension containing text that I know is in those files.

I think Yahoo also produce a desktop search product. But if not 
searching files with 2-letter extensions is a Windows bug, then probably 
all search programs in Windows will have this problem.





Programmers were told for years to allow more than 3 letters in a file 
extension. Now they allow more than 3 letters, and you complain because 
you cannot use less than 3 letters?

Tim

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