Re: Searching the IFS using Windows7 - solution (at bottom of post)

First off - thank you all for your input.

Scott - I haven't tried grep but I did try notepad++ and that was able to
do a successful search based on a partial file name - but when I tried to
do the same searching for string within a file, the search failed.

This used to work well in XP-Pro - my situation is that we receive lab
results from various hospitals to our IFS (which was mapped in my
windows-xp and now win 7 pc). I have several folders in my IFS, one folder
is for our biggest hospital and in that folder is over 15k lab results (and
that's just for the last two months).

For whatever reason I may be asked to see when a file was received or what
was the original data in the file we received. So someone will say can you
tell me all the files we received for a patient named 'crittenden' - so I
have to search the contents of a particular folder and look for any file
that has the string 'crittenden' inside it. Now it there was a battery of
tests (called a panel) there may be multiple files (one for each test in
the panel), so in the case of crittenden there could have been 10 files
that should be found, and with a GUI tool, in XP, I could highlight them,
right click and open them in textpad or notepad++, review the contents and
be done.

Joe - I did add .dat (the file suffix) to the Index Options in the control
panel and set the Folder Options search to always search file names and
contents (same as you suggested) and still no luck.

John - Thanks for recommending AstroGrep seems to be a sufficient tool -
another tool recommended is called Agent Ransack but haven't tried it.

In OpsNav I don't see a search option in the menu, nor is there any search
when selecting a group of files and right-clicking.The only thing is Find
and it appears to apply to file names only.

I just tried using RDi 8.5 and my first thought is that the search criteria
isn't granular enough - I can give it the search string, but can't specify
a date modified date range so it's looking for through all 15k files even
though I know the date modified of the file was between 7/19 and 7/22 - but
DARN if it didn't return all the files in less than one minute - and I
right-clicked on the files found and opened them and they all opened with
my Textpad tool. This is the perfect solution.

Leave it to IBM to provide a solution for another M$ problem!