RE: Searching the IFS using Windows7

I know I have been flummoxed by the Windows 7 search behavior. To the point
that I downloaded a freeware product called AstroGrep.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 8:45 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Searching the IFS using Windows7

By default, Win 7 only does content search on indexed locations. You can
force this behavior on non-indexed drives, however. In Windows Explorer,
hit the Organize dropdown and select Folder and search options. On the
Search tab, check the appropriate What to search radio button (the bottom
one will search contents even on non-indexed locations).

Joe

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 6:01 PM, Scott Klement
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you're going to use grep, anyway, wouldn't it make a lot more sense
to run it under IBM i rather than Windows?

The OP said he was using Windows XP to do his searching before, and he
seemed happy with that. So presumably if the IFS is shared or mapped
or whatever (sorry, I don't know the technical details), his
Windows-based search was able to work just fine, and he was wondering
how to achieve the same in Windows 7.

John