Google Desktop
Google Desktop is a great tool to find those documents you just know you downloaded but aren’t quite sure where they went in your own really well organized file structure ™. It’s also great if you work on a few different PC’s and want to search them all at the same time.
What is frustrating about the out of the box version is it only indexes a few common file types. This article talks about expanding this to index whatever file types you fancy!
What you need:
Run the Any text indexer install and when prompted add extra extensions you want to index.
I used the following in addition to the suggested ones:
#Doms
AddNewExtension “exe”
AddNewExtension “zip”
AddNewExtension “ini”
AddNewExtension “mb”
AddNewExtension “psd”
AddNewExtension “swf”
AddNewExtension “iff”
AddNewExtension “htm”
AddNewExtension “php”
AddNewExtension “html”
AddNewExtension “inc”
AddNewExtension “module”
AddNewExtension “tpl”
AddNewExtension “js”
AddNewExtension “install”
If you’d like to restart your index so that all the existing filetypes that the indexer missed first time are indexed, close google desktop and use the first tool I mentioned above to clear the Google Desktop Cache.
Now your sorted! All these new file types will be indexed when you next do your next desktop search.
