desktop search inside OOo documents?

Jonas Norlander jonorland at gmail.com
Fri Aug 14 22:35:37 UTC 2009


On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:10 PM, D. R. Evans<doc.evans at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a hierarchy of directories containing several hundred OpenOffice.org
> Writer documents.
>
> How do I desktop search through them all looking for a particular piece of
> text (which I know occurs in at least one of them somewhere, but I have no
> idea which directory/file contains it)?
>
> I never can figure out what all these fancy new things like krunner/nepomuk
> are supposed to do; they never seem to do anything useful for me; do I just
> need to bite the bullet and forget about the KDE tools and install google
> desktop search?
>

Google desktop do index OOo files. Its fast don't take up to much
resources (compared to other) and now have support for 64-bit OS.
I have tried several of the desktop search programs and I would have
preferred a other but Google desktop is the that works best for me.

/ Jonas




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