SearchMyFiles Alternatives

SearchMyFiles is described as '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 modified/created/last accessed time, by file attributes, by file content' and is a File Search utility in the file management category. There are more than 100 alternatives to SearchMyFiles for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone apps. The best SearchMyFiles alternative is Everything, which is free. Other great apps like SearchMyFiles are dupeGuru, Keypirinha, FSearch and DocFetcher.

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    Find in Files is a free web tool that can quickly find a desired information in a dozen of files right in a browser. It can search a text in PDF files by phrases or regular expressions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
    • Find in Files (quick search text) is the most popular Web-based alternative to SearchMyFiles.

    • Find in Files (quick search text) is Free and ProprietarySearchMyFiles is also Free and Proprietary
  2. liquidFOLDERS icon
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    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 big thing.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Explorer
     
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    Find duplicate and similar photos, no matter if they are rotated, resized, or in different formats. Ashisoft Duplicate Photos Finder supports over 60+ photo formats, including RAW, HEIC/HEIF, JPG, PNG, GIF, and much more, which means it will not miss a single duplicate photo.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Tracker icon
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    Tracker is a search engine and that allows the user to find their data as fast as possible. Users can search for their files and search for content in their files too.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Xfce
     
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    LAN Search Pro is a free and portable utility for fast file searching across your LAN. You can search for specific file names or for specific file types (e.g. all MP3 files). LAN Search Pro provides a lightning fast search engine and lets you search hidden network resources...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    DuFF is Unix command-line utility for quickly finding duplicates in a given set of files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    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 the result set according to your needs.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. regexxer icon
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    regexxer is a nifty GUI search/replace tool featuring Perl-style regular expressions. If you need project-wide substitution and you’re tired of hacking sed command lines together, then you should definitely give it a try.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
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    A program that can find duplicate or similar video files. Video simili duplicate cleaner compares the video content regardless of different format or compression used (digital video fingerprinting), while other software only find identical files .

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  10. Ffind icon
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    Ffind — search a file hierarchy.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    gnome-search-tool is a utility for finding files on your system. To perform a basic search, you can type a filename or a partial filename, with or without wildcards. To refine your search, you can apply additional search options.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • GNOME
     
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