Index Your Files

Index Your Files allows you to search through all your files or folders on local or networked drives without remote admin rights (as necessary for the similar app "Everything").

Free
Windows
Linux
Wine

index your files allows you to search through all your files or folders on local or networked drives without remote admin rights (as necessary for the similar app "everything"). searching can be done by name, date, size, location etc., and boolean operators are available to to perform multiple keyword searches. you can invoke windows explorer context menus on found files to perform operations such as drag/drop, copy, rename, delete etc. it also includes internal viewers for text, html and image files. 36 languages.

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Portable File search

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