FileLocator Lite enables you to locate files on your pc. It performs a thorough and quick search for any file you want to find.
Cost / License
- Freemium
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- Windows
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Beagle has been discontinued. Similar apps include Everything, which is free. Other options are DocFetcher, Agent Ransack, GCstar and Recoll. File Search Utilities like Beagle are a crowded field, with more than 50 alternatives for Windows, Linux and Mac.
FileLocator Lite enables you to locate files on your pc. It performs a thorough and quick search for any file you want to find.




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Searching computer files and folders is rather common for every PC user daily. Using standard Windows Explorer solution for this has many disavantages: it's slow, uses lots of RAM and many times it does not fin.



