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regain

Search the contents of your files not just the file names. Created by Til Schneider and Thomas Tesche

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Windows
Linux
Self-Hosted
Discontinued

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 documents. Using regain you can search through large portions of data (several gigabytes!) in split seconds!

This is possible by using a search index. regain crawles through your files or webpages, extracts all text and puts it in a smart search index. All this happens in the background. So if you want to search something you get the results immediately.
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Indexed search Search-in-files Add a feature

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Discontinued desktop-search search-text-in-files search-tool text-search web-search

regain was added by asjones in Sep 2011 and the latest update was made in Feb 2018. The list of alternatives was updated Jan 2018. It's possible to update the information on regain or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

regain is discontinued. Find alternatives in the list below or click here for more info

The official website is no longer available. Last version was released in July 2014.

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