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  DocFetcher

  Open Source by DocFetcher project |

  Mac, Windows, Linux

  Not an alternative?

  DocFetcher 1.1 is a portable German/English Open Source desktop search application. It allows you search the contents of documents on your computer. - You can think of it as Google for your local document...

    File Management   portable, file-search, search-files, search-tool

  +5 more desktop-search, indexed-search, lan-search, network-search, search-in-files

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  Locate32

  Free by Janne Huttunen |

  Windows

  Not an alternative?

  Locate32 is software which can be used to find files from your harddrives and other locations. It works like updatedb and locate commands in Unix based systems. In other words, it uses databases to store...

    File Management   file-management, file-search, index

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  Index Your Files

  Free by Rafael Castro |

  Windows

  Not an alternative?

  Index Your Files allows you to search through all your files or folders on local or networked drives without remote admin rights (as necessary for the similar app "Everything"). Searching can be done...

    File Management, Network & Admin   portable Small Size (0.9MB), file-search, search-files, search-tool

  +5 more network-scanner, network-search, lan-search, search-text-in-files, languages.min.15

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  PowerGREP

  Commercial by Just great software |

  Windows

  Not an alternative?

  Quickly search through large numbers of files on your PC or network using powerful text patterns to find exactly the information you want. Search and replace with plain text or regular expressions to maintain...

    perl, regular-expression, grep, search-and-replace

  +1 more windows-grep

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  SearchMyFiles

  Free by NirSoft |

  Windows

  Not an alternative?

  SearchMyFiles is a non-indexing portable alternative to the standard "Search For Files And Folders" module of Windows. It allows you to easily search files in your system by wildcard, by last...

    File Management   portable, file-search, search-files, search-tool

  +3 more network-search, lan-search, non-indexing

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  Cathy

  Free by Robert Vašícek |

  Windows

  Not an alternative?

  An extremly small, very fast and easy to use media cataloging tool. You can use it to index files stored on removable media (CDs, DVDs or even diskettes), hard disks or net drives, and create searchable...

    cataloging, cat-tool

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  dnGREP

  Open Source by Denis Stankovski |

  Windows

  Not an alternative?

  dnGREP is a GREP for Windows. Features: - Shell integration (ability to search from explorer) - Plain text/regex/XPath search (including case-insensitive search) - Phonetic search (using Bitap and...

    File Management   regex, search-files, search-and-replace, grep

  +1 more recursive

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  FileSeek

  Free by Binary Fortress Software |

  Windows

  Not an alternative?

  FileSeek is a lightning fast, small and easy to use file searching application for Windows. It can even be integrated right into the Windows Explorer right-click menu to provide quick and easy access. FileSeek...

    File Management   file-management, file-search

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  AstroGrep

  Open Source |

  Windows

  Not an alternative?

  AstroGrep is A Microsoft Windows GUI File Searching (grep) utility. Features include regular expressions, versatile printing options, stores most recent used paths and has a "context" feature which...

    File Management   file-search, regex, grep

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  Searchmonkey

  Open Source by Embedded IQ Ltd |

  Mac, Windows, Linux

  Not an alternative?

  A fast real-time search engine for displaying regular expression matches (both file name and content) across multiple directories. Written in Gtk2 it is highly portable, and as well as running on Linux,...

    index, desktop-search, desktop-index

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  XSearch

  Free |

  Windows

  Not an alternative?

  XSearch is a free search tool that with more features that Windows Search didnt provided. It can search files on your computer in high speed. When searching for special words in files, you can specify the...

    File Management   file-search, search-files, search-computer

  +4 more local-files-search, computer-files-search, windows-search, no-index

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  Meshin

  Not an alternative?

  This alternative is not yet approved or reported as not an alternative.

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  TaggTool

  Commercial |

  Windows

  Not an alternative?

  The Personal File Tagging Utility. Tagg is a utility which locates your files based on simple labels you attach or tag on to your files.

    File Management   file-search, explorer-integration, auto-tagger

  +3 more organize-files, file-tagging, tag-based

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  BareGrep

  Free* by Bare Metal Software Pty Ltd |

  Windows

  Not an alternative?

  A free file finding and text searching tool: * Regular expression text search * High performance search algorithm * Wildcard and regular expression file search * Recursive directory search * Save,...

    File Management   regex, search-files, grep, recursive, text-search

  +1 more incremental-search

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  Find Any File

  Free by Thomas Tempelmann |

  Mac

  Not an alternative?

  Find Any File searches your local disks for files by name, creation or modification date, size, or type and creator code (not by content, though). As there are other tools with a similar search operation, here...

    File Management   file-search, finder, find-files

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  regain

  Open Source by Til Schneider and Thomas Tesche |

  Mac, Windows, Linux

  Not an alternative?

  Search the contents of your files not just the file names. regain is a search engine similar to web search engines like Google, with the difference that you don't search the web, but your own files and...

    search-tool, indexed-search, text-search

  +2 more search-text-in-files, search-in-files

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  SMF – Search my Files

  Free by funk.eu |

  Windows

  Not an alternative?

  SMF is a file and file duplicate search tool that uses hashing (MD5, CRC32 or SHA1) to determine similarity. It has tons of search filter capabilities and a result reporting tool, with which you can sub-filter...

    File Management   portable, file-search, search-files, search-tool

  +3 more network-search, lan-search, indexed-search

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  InSight Desktop Search

  Free by Pranav Kapoor |

  Windows

  Not an alternative?

  "InSight Desktop Search" is a search engine that keeps track of all the files in your system and makes sure that you can access your files/folders easily and quickly. It is more than just a search...

    search-engine, wikipedia, jukebox, quick-launch

  +1 more insight

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  Beagle

  Not an alternative?

  This application has been discontinued. No more info was provided.

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  liquidFOLDERS

  Commercial by liquidFOLDERS |

  Windows

  Not an alternative?

  liquidFOLDERS stores all files in a separate area of your computer we call "store". A store does not have a fixed directory tree (let alone one that you'll have to manage yourself), but is one...

    Development, File Management   explorer-extension, file-system

  +8 more relational-database, desktop-search, explorer-replacement, geo-location, file-finder, geo-tagging, relational, stores

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• Good, but a flaw in my opinion

  Jul 2011 Comment: BareGrep

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  Apr 2013 Added FileSearchEX as an alternative to Agent Ransack

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• JohnB299

  Jan 2013 Added Instant Document Search as an alternative to Agent Ransack

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• Venom88

  Jan 2013 Removed Google Desktop as an alternative to Agent Ransack

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• Cilantro

  Dec 2012 Liked Agent Ransack

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• SamiraNowosak

  Dec 2012 Added TaggTool as an alternative to Agent Ransack

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• SamiraNowosak

  Dec 2012 Added InSight Desktop Search as an alternative to Agent Ransack

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• SamiraNowosak

  Dec 2012 Added Index Your Files as an alternative to Agent Ransack

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• SamiraNowosak

  Dec 2012 Added File Seeker as an alternative to Agent Ransack

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• SamiraNowosak

  Dec 2012 Added Wise JetSearch as an alternative to Agent Ransack

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