While we’re talking about performance, during this v7 release we’re going to be doing some profile guided optimization work to see if we can squeeze out another 5-10% speed improvement. However, if you want the same Excel/Word processing as v6 just set the IFilter Search Priority to Primary in the IFilter Settings. The improved accuracy and layout with the dedicated Word and Excel processing can occasionally result in slightly slower times than with Office IFilters but in our tests it wasn’t significant and was worth the small performance penalty. In all aspects of performance from application start-up and core search times to memory foot print we regularly compare the latest version to old versions just to make sure we haven’t inadvertently introduced any issues. It’s a good point and one we take very seriously, we understand it’s one of our key selling points. Please don’t do anything to bloat it up or slow it down.”. FL is bar none the fastest grep utility for Win. “Just please tell me you didn’t do anything to slow it down. Update: After this was sent out we had a great question: All of them focused on one thing, helping you work better by finding your data faster and easier!
We’ve literally hundreds of features we’re going to be adding over the NEXT ten years. But in some ways we’ve only just started. Over the last ten years FileLocator Pro has morphed and grown through great continuous feedback from you, our customers, to the fantastic product it is today.
Note: With a preset selected the file name field is treated as a Boolean expression. Rather than having to type in *.png *.bmp *.jpg *.tif every time you want to search pictures FileLocator Pro now includes presets for: This new option adds the file name to the contents when evaluating the search. Prior to version 7.0 FileLocator Pro only searched the contents of a file for the term in the Containing Text field. It can be used to limit the lines a following expression can appear in, e.g. If you find yourself only wanting to search the first X lines of each file you’ll love the LINES operator. The search will be re-run with the new word replacing what was in the Containing text field. Here are some of my favourite new small features: Search AgainĮver found yourself copying text from the Text tab and pasting back into the Containing Text field to do another search? Well now you can simply right-click on the word and click the new Search Again menu option. It’s not always the big features that make the biggest difference, sometimes the ‘small’ features can punch well above their weight. It allows you to save just a single search tab (a Session) or all the open search tabs (a Workspace).
Version 7 adds a new Session/Workspace feature so you can save your search results and then re-load them back into FileLocator Pro at a future time. Working with large result sets can take time, sometimes days. Each report can be customized and is available in numerous styles and formats, e.g. Not anymore, FileLocator Pro now includes a dedicated Reporting tab, with reports for Files, Contents, and Keywords. Although it’s always had the ability to print the Hits tab or export to a file any form of customization required quite a strong technical ability. Reporting has long been a feature we’ve been looking to add to FileLocator Pro.
This worked so well for one our beta testers, where search times over 26,000 PDFs went from over 5 minutes down to just 10 seconds, that they were able to use cached searches instead of going with an indexed search solution (avoiding with all the headaches associated with indexing). Version 7 introduces a new Document Caching functionality that allows FileLocator Pro to store converted text in a caching database for use in subsequent searches. While FileLocator Pro’s multi-thread searching algorithms are lightning fast they can still be slowed by the need to convert large documents into text every time they’re searched.