Agent Ransack Search Download ~UPD~
Margarete Klauer
Agent Ransack is a freeware professional file-search utility for finding information on your hard drive quickly and efficiently. Agent Ransack provides many features, such as regular expressions that allow complex, rule-based searches; immediate contents results view; and various wizards to walk the user through the search process.
Users familiar with the Unix grep command will appreciate the ability to search the contents of files using regular expressions, as well as the ability to view found contents without having to open the files.
I've started using Agent Ransack to search an entire directory at once looking for a particular string. The only issue I have with it so far is that if I'm searching in a Subversion working copy, it finds the string in the .svn folders, which of course is not what I want. Is there a way to tell it to ignore any directory named .svn as well as any subdirectories of a .svn directory?
As an example, when I'm doing a search, it searches through some very large zip files, which ends up making the search incredibly slow. I'd prefer it to just skip any and all zip files. I'd be happy if this were a configuration option it would remember every time. Is it possible to accomplish this on the free version?
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The program's interface is plain and intuitive. Users can search file names or the text within files; specify the file size; search within a range of dates that the file was modified, created, or last accessed; and select whether they want to match cases. The program shows the search results in one pane and search statistics--the number of items searched and found, and the length of the search--in another. We found that Agent Ransack repeatedly located files that the Windows search tool did not, and we didn't have to wait a terribly long time for the results. We were also impressed by the fact that although Agent Ransack is easy to use, it comes with a very thorough and well-written Help file. It's suitable for novices who know simply that they want a more powerful search tool than what Windows provides, but it's also a good choice for more-advanced users, or those who would like to learn more about searching. Overall, we think that Agent Ransack is a good choice for just about everybody.
The built-in Windows search utility typically does a decent job of finding the occasional misplaced file, but it's not really made for heavy-duty searching. Agent Ransack, however, is. This highly customizable tool lets users search with a number of parameters that aren't a part of the Windows search utility, and it works quickly to boot.
I'm attempting to use Agent Ransack to search one search term with many other search terms, but need help formatting the containing text search criteria. For example, I'd be looking to search for bread AND (butter OR Jelly OR Peanut Butter OR Peanut OR mustard OR) etc...,
Thanks, last question. A majority of the found items do not contain the "containing text" search terms as text. Instead the term appears in an imbedded script within a file, or image, but not the actual text within a document. Is there a way to filter out these results? Thanks
Thanks, but I still get inaccurate results. If I do a search for .doc files, some have the correct text. Some don't, but are highlighted because a search term is embedded somehow. When I click on "hits" a whole bunch of random characters are displayed including the search term. Ex. eG Cé bread ag+ However bread actually isn't in the document. There's probably a better way to explain but not sure. Thanks again for the help.
and found all instances of the word 'return' were highlighted, as the following quote marks were considered to be boolean syntax. Now, this particular search I could run in regex mode, but I'd rather not have to think about what I might need to escape as a regex.
Searching through the code in Visual Studio can be time consuming, and the built in Cross reference is not always updated, but there is an alternative I can recommend. Agent Ransack is a free file searching utility that quickly can scan most D365 source code (the *.XML files placed in K:\AosService\PackagesLocalDirectory\).
Recently, during my online research, I came across a promising tool called WinFindr. It appears to be a data searching tool for Windows, similar to the ones you already reviewed, offering the ability to search for files, folders, registry keys, and registry entries with multiple search terms simultaneously. The potential capabilities of WinFindr have piqued my interest, but I need your opinion too, please.
Given your expertise in reviewing and listing such software, I kindly request that you consider evaluating WinFindr and, if deemed suitable, adding it to your list of reviewed desktop search utilities. Your comprehensive assessment would greatly assist me in making an informed decision about whether I should use WinFindr or not.
For example, using non-expert interface (Expert User not checked), Main Tab
File name: *.pdf
[x] Containing text: the
Look in: E:\pdfs\Options Tab
[x] PDF format
[x] Office formatsNote that I am searching for the word "the" in E:\pdfs\ which contains
40 pdf file all of which contain the word "the", yet when I perform
the search in AR, it reports 0 files found.There other words that I tried searching for, which I know are in the
files, but they are not found.Has anyone else seen this?Thanks
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I have not researched Agent Ransack for a long time.I was under the impression that Agent Ransack did not search inside
pdf files and that you will have to buy the pay-ware version to get
this ability.
I don't see anything about that on the feature comparison chart:
=features&type=agentransackHowever, I suspect that the chart isn't very accurate. As described
above, AR does allow me to select "PDF Format" in the options tab.So far I'm not impressed with the AR documents.
The Grep Dir button in my Diff/Merge Toolbar might be of interest. It'll search for a string using the findstr command that's built into Windows and show you which files contain it, along with the matching lines. It's not perfect since they just appear in a text window but I've found it handy when don't want to switch to something else to do the search.
I thought maybe it fails because that is a number.
But I have hundreds of Excel files with Integer numbers stored in "General" format cells and I desperately need to be able to search them to see which files contain certain numbers.
It all started with some files that were sent to me - they work PERFECTLY for searching cells for numbers. So strange - yet if I open the file then save it . . . no changes or edits at all, just Open and Save . . . then the search fails for all numbers in that file.
Will - thanks, but that MS article tells you how to add new filetypes to the list of filetypes that Windows includes in its search. Windows already includes all Office filetyes automatically as it reveals in the article.
Dave - thanks - however, Google search has the same problem as Windows search has for this issue. It fails to find Excel files that contain specific Integer numbers. UNLESS they are the files that I posted up for Download. I really need some folks to download those 2 files because maybe someone will see why one succeeds with the Searches and the Other fails (and all newly created files also fail).
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