FileLocator Pro 5.2.0.1025

3.9 out of 5 stars 3.9 (56 votes)

(October 30, 2009)

Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP / Shareware; $24.95 / 1,872 downloads

FileLocator Pro offers the most affordable way to exhaustively search your computer for all your important data. Unlike other search products like Windows XP's built in search, it does not consider any file too small or insignificant to examine. It works with regular exressions in both contents and file names, supports scripting, internal and external editing, sorting, etc.

  • Publisher

    Mythicsoft Ltd.

  • Homepage

    FileLocator Pro

  • Limitations

    Yes - 30 day timeout

  • Uninstaller

    Yes

  • Latest Changes

    - Speed improvement on single phase searches (up to 50% faster)

    - Significant memory management improvements on very large searches

    - Allows UTF8 default format for UTF8 files without BOM

    - Bug fix: Rename on mouse select wasn't working

    - Bug fix: Crash with Nino Copy Path shell extension

    - Bug fix: Multiple folder dialog added invalid items

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  1. 4 out of 5 stars
    emanresU deriseD

    Reviewing 5.2.0.1025 (Oct 30, 2009)

    The utility by the name of "Everything" is good at what it does, but it doesn't let you search within documents (DOC, DOCX, PDF, TIF, XLS, XLSX, etc.) or within archives (7Z, CAB, ISO, RAR, ZIP, etc.) the way FLP can. FLP also lets you restrict results by attribute (archive, folder, system, compressed, hidden, sparse, encrypted, offline, index, or readonly). It can also show file content in search results, and let you jump directly to the line(s) displayed therein.

    So in short, while FLP isn't perfect (see my previous review), comparing it to "Everything" doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense.

  2. 3 out of 5 stars
    emanresU deriseD

    Reviewing 4.5 Build 842 (Aug 12, 2009)

    I cannot believe that after all this time, FLP still does not allow you to search by file/directory CREATION DATE/TIME. You cannot even display a create date column in the search results. This is an annoying limitation.

  3. 4 out of 5 stars
    aleng

    Reviewing 4.5 Build 842 (Jan 16, 2009)

    Found FL good, as i hate the indexing stuff. But prefer "Everything" from http://www.voidtools.com/. Fast and Free

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    uecic

    Reviewing 4.5 Build 828 (Aug 7, 2008)

    Simply the best ! I use it for 2 years now, and I couldn't live without.

  5. 5 out of 5 stars
    Undesired Username

    Reviewing 4.5 Build 828 (Aug 7, 2008)

    Yawn? Let me know when Locate32 has a preview pane like FileLocator Pro does. Also let me know how fun it is that you need to be sure you have a recent index each time you search with Locate32, or else the results may not be accurate. And how about searching within 7Z, CAB, ISO, PDF, and all the other file types FLP supports? Can Locate32 do that? I hope I haven't disturbed your slumber with all these facts.

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