SwiftSearch

SwiftSearch is a lightweight program whose purpose is to help you quickly find the files you need on your Windows machine without ever requiring you to index your drives.

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Windows

swiftsearch is a lightweight program whose purpose is to help you quickly find the files you need on your windows machine without ever requiring you to index your drives. most search utilities that achieve similar speeds do so by indexing drives while the computer is idle, but because idleness detection is so difficult to get right, in practice they end up slowing down the whole system just to speed up search. swiftsearch works differently: given administrator privileges, it completely bypasses the file system (only ntfs supported) and reads the file table directly every time, which speeds up search by many orders of magnitude. typically searches yield full results in ~10 seconds or less, a significant speedup for many users. as a bonus, this program also supports pathbased search (for example, you can search for "*program*\windows*"), regular expressions (just start the search name with '>' character), and full directory sizes. its goal is to be simple, swift, and intuitive to use.

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File search Persistent Linux

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DocFetcher

DocFetcher is a portable German/English open source desktop search application. It allows you search the contents of documents on your computer. - You can think of it as Google for your local document repository.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Portable File search Indexed search Search in files Portability on many OS Semantic Search
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Recoll

This package is a personal full text search package which is based on a very strong backend (Xapian), for which it provides an easy to use and feature-rich interface. Recoll finds keywords inside documents as well as file names.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux BSD

Low memory usage File search Full text search File preview Indexed search Search in files Semantic Search
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AndroSearch

Search INSIDE documents/files on your device like no other files manager/finder do. Featuring sub second, full text, Desktop Search in files content, and over apps names and description.

Free Android Android Tablet

File search Full text search Search in files
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DeskRule

Wherever you have files DeskRule can locate them. Search your hard disk, but also in mobile phones and cameras, zipfolders, FTP, OneDrive and all the other virtual shell folders.

Commercial Windows

File search Support for regular expressions Search in files
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Instant Document Search

Instant Document Search is a powerful search solution (like Internet search engines) for your local documents. You can instantly find documents by keywords or...

Free Windows

File search Indexed search Search in files
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Advanced File Finder

Generate file list of all files with specific name pattern, extension, properties and attributes, as well as text and binary content by recursively scanning specified directories and searching for matching files.

Commercial Windows

Portable File search Batch processing Duplicate Files Finder Search in files

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Alternatives in SwiftSearch for Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, BSD, Android, Android Tablet. This list contains a total of 6 applications similar to SwiftSearch.

Last updated: 2020-07-03 01:30:33

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