On Tuesday 28 August 2007 08:00:17 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tuesday 28 August 2007, Stroller wrote: > > On 28 Aug 2007, at 08:11, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > >> If you know how to use them, you'll have a lot of fun. > > > > > > What is this desktop search engine thingy whereof the OP speaks? I > > > do not know of such a thing... > > > > It's like locate, except it indexes the contents of files (rather > > than just the names) and it does so immediately the file is saved, > > rather than as a cron job. > > Seems like a lot of folks are being very helpful and want to assist me > in understanding what these Beagle-esque apps do :-) > > I do know what they are, I just never use them - I prefer grep find > locate etc. I was being slightly sarcastic with my comment, with my > tongue very firmly planted in both cheeks :-) > > But hey, maybe some other user who would use such things now know more > about them and maybe emerge them A place for everything and everything in its place. If you are as anally retentive about it as me you don't need a desktop search engine. I had beagle for a while but I never used it so I decided to take the space back. Also for specific types of files there are specific types of database programs. So all my music is in amarok, all my research papers (pdfs) are in tellico, as are all my videos/dvds, all my photos are in digikam. That's the majority of my files. The rest is mostly work which is in a folder called "work" with a sub-folder for each experiment/project. It's not hard. It's only a big job if you've got thousands of files with random file names scattered across your file system. Saludos Matt
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