If
you're a blogger like me, most likely you have a huge archive of your blog
articles.
This
is for record-keeping purposes as well as should it come to the worst and
Blogger decided to shut you down as I've anticipated in my blog article
entitled “How
to do a backup of your Blogger Blog in case Blogspot Shuts you down”.
Point
to note; I almost had a meltdown the day when they decided to shutdown Picasa,
leaving me to do the painful job of migrating my pictures to Google Drive and
slowly updating my 2500+ blog articles as detailed in my blog article
entitled “How
to embed Google Photos images in Blogger using Google Drive”.
So
being able to search through my massive archive of some 2500+ articles is a
must. I need to know the specific document name while searching and archiving.
But with 2500+ articles, I find that cannot remember them all. Instead, I
remember keywords and what the blog articles were about.
Windows
is no help; the search tools are very primitive and crashes whenever I try to
search inside of a document. Worse, Windows cannot search *.PDF files, a format
I'm considering to save space even as I shop online for a 1TB Hard Drive as
explained in my Geezam blog article entitled “How to do
Physical Backup using DVD and CD and Best software”.
So
what are my options to search for specific strong in any textual document on the
Hard-drive of my Acer Aspire E 15 Start Laptop?
How to search any
Textual Files – Agent Ransack, DocFetcher and FileSearchy
After
much research and trial and error, I found some free computer programs that can
searching for a specific text string inside all documents on a computer, be
they:
1.
Microsoft Office
2.
OpenOffice
3.
PDF
4.
HTML
5.
Any document formats
So
without further ado, here are the three (3) I strongly recommend to search your
growing cache of Blog files documents:
2.
DocFetcher
3.
FileSearchy
Granted
Google has been working on Desktop search as explained in my blog
article entitled “Google
Desktop Search Patent and Why @Google's Alphabet will organize your 1TB SSD
Drives”, but it's nowhere near as good as these free alternatives. Also, I’m
not so trusting of Google poking around my Hard-drive, where other
copyright-infringing files may lurk.
Sharing
is caring, so share this info with your fellow bloggers having trouble keeping
track of their massive growing archive of blog articles.
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