Google Desktop seems like a great tool – I don’t care about any of its widgets, just the ability to (quickly) search inside files. A tremendously life-improving feature is if it will search inside Web scripts (mainly PHP and HTML) I have stored locally or on a network drive. It seems like something it should do, but I can’t find a direct reference to it or a plugin/addon that explicitly says it will, and I’d like to know whether it’s worth the download/install/index mishagosh beforehand.
On the other hand, if there are other features you’re crazy about, please share—it may be worth it to install anyway.
Thanks,
Rhythm
Google Desktop indexes all your text files; that includes any code you have lying around locally. Not sure about network drives, but I can’t think of any reason why that wouldn’t also work.
I’m pretty sure it does this, but even if it doesn’t, it will find stuff in just about every file type you can think of. It’s so much better than Windows search, and so much faster.
Thanks friedo and 633squadron — I probably wouldn’t have installed if it didn’t seem like it would do that. This looks to make my life a LOT easier (both for scripts and general searching).
For the record (in case someone is searching the Board):
Yes, and very well. I installed, waited through the indexing (three local drives, one networked Linksys NAS 200), and searched for a small file reference. It almost instantly picked up the Web pages I’d built with it, email discussions that referred to it, and occurrences of the term inside a PHP script. Clicking the in-script hit opened the script in DreamWeaver. (I know DreamWeaver has some search capabilities to do similar things, but is limited to files it already knows about, and is a lot slower than Google Desktop).