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

["Michael Blasnik" <michael.blasnik@verizon.net>]

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I'm pretty sure that the built-in file search engine in Vista has a configurable 
list of file types to index and search.  I think you need to add .do files to 
that list.  The same is probably true for Google Desktop.

Michael Blasnik

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim" <lists@timbp.com>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 7:08 AM
Subject: Re: st: Windows (& Vista) will not search within do files.



> 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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