Search doesn't find contents string

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I just did a Contents search of my system drive for a unique last name that's in at least two MS Word documents twice each - I was looking for a third - and all it came up with was a tab_1.ini file from XYplorer's search. I've attached a copy of the search and a snippet from one of the Word docs with the name. I don't see a typo, so am I missing something about doing content searches or the program's search capabilities? XYplorer 14.80, Win 8.1 Pro x64. Thanks,

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XYPlorer use a lot of Window's own API to search inside files. Unfortunately, Windows can only search inside files of text file and not documents. You will need to install IFilters for the type of documents that you want to search inside. Basically an IFilter is:

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An IFilter is a plugin that allows Microsoft's search engines to index various file formats (as documents, email attachments, database records, audio metadata etc.) so that they become searchable. Without an appropriate IFilter, contents of a file cannot be parsed and indexed by the search engine.

In this case, the IFilter you want comes from Microsoft directly. So go to http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download ... x?id=17062 and download and install that IFilter. You should be able to search the content using XYplorer now. Oh, MAKE SURE YOU'RE INSTALLING THE 32BIT VERSION of IFilter since that is what works with XYplorer.

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Thanks, however I'm getting an install error message: "The MSI Installer type does not match the platform architecture." At the MS site, Win 8 is not in the supported list, although maybe that hasn't been updated, and it requires the MS Search Service, which I don't have installed.

[Enternal]

Ooh you're right. It's not because it's Win 8 but apparently Microsoft does not support installing 32bit IFilters into x64 Windows even though 32bit applications like XYplorer can only use 32bit IFilters... Aaargh Microsoft... The work around that I found is: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9185 ... x64-system

It's a bit more involved so I don't know if you want to do it that way. If you don't have access to a 32bit Windows, I can try to get you the files later today.

I know you prefer to be able to search through files using XYplorer but perhaps for searching content, you might want to take a look at Agent Ransack (same developer as FileLocator Pro) http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack. You can then use it in conjunction with this script by highend http://xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=11197 which integrates it into XYplorer.

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I prefer to keep it simple, so if you can come up with the files for x64 that would be preferable. Thanks,

[Enternal]

Ok! Here are all the files! I included the the registry file that was covered at the Stackoverflow page http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9185 ... x64-system

Hopefully it works this time for you. I had it in 2 parts due to size limitations for files here per upload.

IFilters 2.zip

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IFilters 1.zip

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That works great, thank you.