Reviews of Locate

1. 
   horsecharles

   Reviewing 3.1.8.9210 RC3 (Dec 23, 2008)

   forresterinc:
   
   Everything does not work at all on Vista.
   
   Also....how is something like this supposed to work(fast & immediate) if it does not index?
2. 
   forresterinc

   Reviewing 3.1.8.9210 RC3 (Nov 3, 2008)

   "extremely well", if you have an NTFS system, and are looking for filename-search only, I recommend "Everything search engine" ( http://www.voidtools.com/ ).
   
   That being said, I've tried Locate, and it is quite competent, but I like Everything better -- as I too, search for filenames mostly, and I do not like the out-of-date-database problem nor always-on indexing programs.
   
   4 stars for a well-deserving application.
3. 
   extremely well

   Reviewing 3.1.8.9210 RC3 (Sep 27, 2008)

   No real-time indexing of newly added files. Still a deal breaker.
   
   http://www.think-less-do-more.com/avafind/info
   
   Ava Find hasn't been updated in 5 yrs and the author is MIA, yet it still kicks the arse of ALL "file finders" (and I tried them all)...
4. 
   roymccoy

   Reviewing 3.1.8.9210 RC3 (Sep 25, 2008)

   This is the kind of searching that should be in embedded Windows Vista.
   
   The advanced search option in Vista is NOT very handy if have a large amount of files, and/or multiple hard drives connected to your PC.
   
   With Locate you can choose the exact settings that works best for YOU, and it's extremely fast.
   I have over 1 million files, and when the search database is updated, it finds whatever you want in 1-2 seconds.
   
   Locate doesn't looks as good as Vista, but it's very clever for it's purpose, and the more you use it the more you'll realize how limited the standard Windows search really are!
   
   I use Locate for my every day use at work and at home!
   
   Rating 5.
   
   - The same goes for Firefox, Avast, XnView, Photoshop, WinRAR, JetAudio, Nero, Mp3tag, µTorrent, HyperSnap and KeePass...
5. 
   elations

   Reviewing 3.1.8.8030 RC2 (Sep 10, 2008)

   Can't the Reviewer: extremely well be silenced? His regularly repeated, annoying spam messages give the impression, the software he endorses was for morons only. Avafind isn't that bad! I've tried it in the past but it is, as others pointed out, a dead project and doesn't have the search power and flexibility of Locate, which serves me much better. and Locate serves me better and I prefer it by quite a margin but prefer locate, which serves me better. I actually like to be able to determine myself when to update the database, and that it enables me to also find files that may have been deleted. For this reason, and because I don't want to always have the indexing engine run in the background, I see real time indexing as a disadvantage, if anything. In the very rare cases an up-to-the minute database is required, on can always quickly update the database which hardly takes time, no problem. Definitely not a catastrophe worth switching to capital letters about.

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