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limit Start Search to local files
I find that when I hit the Start button and it gives me a list of files
many of them are files up in the cloud on Dropbox. I would like to only be offered the choice of files local to my PC. Is there a way to limit the search? TIA -- Larry Smith |
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limit Start Search to local files
Laurence Smith wrote:
I find that when I hit the Start button and it gives me a list of files many of them are files up in the cloud on Dropbox. I would like to only be offered the choice of files local to my PC. Is there a way to limit the search? TIA The search has a control panel called Indexing Options. Which offers some control of what is indexed and makes the search go faster. Microsoft has their own idea of what you want, which is why the interface on the thing on the left is so annoying. http://i59.tinypic.com/23utqna.gif As well, at least for local disks, there is a tick box to enable or disable indexing. The Windows search tends to be a "federated search", meaning data mining from local or remote storage is possible. And you can search your individual email messages, just as easily as the file content on a foreign volume. Perhaps this "Dropbox" thing, has some mechanism for including a hook for federated search. Another mechanism, is Windows can have a CSC folder, containing offline files. So even when a computer is not connected to the Internet, the copies of files you've been working on, are still available locally. Perhaps what you're seeing are things in a cache and not directly on Dropbox ? The CSC may be involved in things that "sync". And maybe if you're not careful, the Indexing control panel may be selecting to index what is inside CSC ? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/942960 Paul |
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