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Locate Data Files

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by bellt

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There are data files throughout my hard drive, including modified program files such as personal dictionaries.

Is there a program, script or any other way to find all of these files without going through every file on the hard drive?

Alternatively, is there a way to search by attributes (A or S)?

Thanks.

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by dafe2

We've found DTSearch to be about the best out there. There are others such as Papyrus & Sleuthhound Pro. If funding is an issue, the (advanced) search funtions of Windows 2K & XP aren't that bad.

You can Google for downloads of the tools I mention here.

Good Luck

by apotheon

There's about a million way to do that on the various Unices. For Windows, you'd need third-party software of some kind (or to write code yourself) to get effective searches like that. It really looks like you're talking about Windows systems (particular with reference to A and S "attributes"), so I'll refer you back to dafe2's recommendations. You can also do a Google search for "desktop search" (include the quotes) and see if that turns up some free, effective local filesearching software aside from what dafe2 recommends.

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