FAST FILE SEARCHES

Let Finders Keepers do the search--you do the thinking.™

 It takes time to do file searches .  Your file searches can take you through many files before you find what you want.  If you have to replace text, the file searches are ten times worse.  Quit your search headaches--let Finders Keepers™ do the file search for you.  It can search any files, replace text, view or edit found files, and index entire hard drives to perform file searches by indexed text retrieval.  The file searches are done in the "Finders" section, the text retrieval in the "Keepers" section.

SEARCH AND REPLACE FILES IN FINDERS...

In the Finders section, Finders Keepers™ helps you find what you are looking for on disk.  That would be a file or something in a file.  You can search files 4 ways :  plain text, regular expressions, approximate, and sound-alike.  With three of these four ways, all but plain-text, you can find your text even when you are not sure of the spelling.  You can replace found targets.  But generally, you will find your targets in order to look at them.  Finders Keepers™ provides 6 ways to view or edit files you find in searches .

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INDEXED TEXT RETRIEVAL IN KEEPERS...

In the Keepers section, Finders Keepers™ provides indexing, or  indexed text retrieval , as yet another way to search through files, and view or launch the files you find.  Indexing enables instant searching for documents or entire hard drives.  Indexed searches take less than a second.  Indexing is also useful for studying, reviewing, or checking documents.  For example, if you have a court case with John Doe or you wrote a novel about John Doe, you may want to index all files where he might appear in order to see what you said about him--for consistency and the like.

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SEARCH AND REPLACE TEXT SAFELY

Finders Keepers™ can find and replace text many times faster than you can by hand, and more than than, it can do it safely.  You can exclude any number of file extensions from find and replace operations, e.g., ".sys" and ".exe".  Changed files are backed up.  You can password-disable the replace functions.

FOR NEW OR ADVANCED USERS...

Three of the four search methods in Finders Keepers™ are "non-technical":  plain-text, sound-alike, and approximate.  The plain-text method will find just what you type in; but the sound-alike and approximate methods will find words or phrases that are close to what you type in.  Finders Keepers™ has many features for the advanced user, including regular expressions, scores of options, batch mode, built-in binary and text viewers, searching zips, and indexed text retrieval.