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SearchMyFiles

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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 modified/created/last accessed time, by file attributes, by file content...

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License model

  • FreeProprietary

Country of Origin

  • IL flagIsrael

Platforms

  • Windows  SearchMyFiles is a powerful portable file search utility
3.9 / 5 Avg rating (7)
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6comments
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Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Local Search
  2.  File Search
  3.  Non-Indexing search
  4.  Portable
  5.  Full-Text Search
  6.  No registration required
  7.  Works Offline
  8.  Ad-free
  9.  Duplicate File Finder
  10.  Network Scanner

 Tags

  • removable-media
  • network-search
  • search-tool
  • lan-search

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SearchMyFiles information

  • Developed by

    IL flagNirSoft
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 3.9
  • Alternatives

    103 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 6 comments and reviews about SearchMyFiles, and it has gotten 35 likes

SearchMyFiles was added to AlternativeTo by Abd Shomad on Jul 17, 2010 and this page was last updated Jun 10, 2024.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
Killy
Oct 3, 2023
0

UI is not the most convenient and is quite dated, but the app just works! Does its job without complaints.

Emmanuel
Feb 15, 2025
0

I reported a bug to the author of this software but he didn't reply nor correct it. Later I found a second bug but why should I report it? Better to switch to another software.

TBayAreaPat
Apr 1, 2023
0

Fast effective for finding duplicates. Doesn't do fuzzy matches. I don't see group delete options like older/newer.

zavakz
Mar 8, 2022
0

Not sure why this isn't an alternative to applications like FileSeek, InfoRapid Search & Replace or dnGREP.

DarkestLove
Jul 14, 2024

Is it because you haven't submitted it yet? :P

ibn Muhammad
Oct 25, 2019
-1

Great application.

But UI/UX could be massively improved and simplified, such as hiding non-frequent options under an 'advanced' drop-down panel or 'more options' or such.

Another major downside is that when a text string search is found, it tells you the binary position in the file, which is utterly useless, and doesn't state the line number.

Another major negative is that it doesn't show preview of the lines where it found the match, such as the first few lines before and after - instead only showing a list of files where the match was found. And if I remember correctly, opening the listed file also doesn't take you to the line where search text was found.

A better alternative is BareGrepPro - although unfortunately it's not free, and has a 5-min timer before it auto-closes.

WeiHua Liu
Sep 27, 2017
-1

This application could not compare duplicate files using hashing.

WeiHua Liu
Jan 13, 2019

SMF-Search My File can do deduplication. SMF is better.

What is SearchMyFiles?

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 modified/created/last accessed time, by file attributes, by file content (text or binary search), and by the file size. SearchMyFiles allows you to make a very accurate search that cannot be done with Windows search. For Example: You can search all files created in the last 10 minutes with size between 500 and 700 bytes. After you made a search, you can select one or more files, and save the list into text/html/csv/xml file, or copy the list to the clipboard. SearchMyFiles is portable, and you can use it from a USB flash drive without leaving traces in the Registry of the scanned computer. The utility is also a part of NirLauncher icon NirLauncher Pack.