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PaulCroft Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: "Using winXP to search files" 08-20-02, 23:42z  Hi All Can someone out there with a winXP equipped PC do me a favour please? FSNav has a peculiar file naming convention for downloaded sids and stars and I wanted to find out which of the sid/star files was for Gatwick. I knew that I'd written some of them so I did a search, using the winXP file manager (explorer?), for the word 'croft' in any file in the sid/star folder. The search came up with a big fat nothing. This surprised me so I then opened one of the files, checked the data therein, closed the file and ran a search on data I now knew was present in one of the files. Guess what? winXP failed to identify the file, again reporting nothing found in the folder. I then did a search on this folder from a networked PC which has win98SE as the OS and it found the files containing my name almost immediately. I then ran a few more searches with the winXP PC for text contained within other files - *.doc files amongst them - and winXP appears to fail to identify any files that have non-text file type extensions, e.g. *.flt, *.ss, etc. If you have a winXP PC would you do a quick search in the file manager for text you know to be in a file and see if the OS identifies the file? *.FLT files are just text files in the FS02 flights folder. Open one with a text editor, copy any text you like from here and then paste it into the search box and see what happens. Do you have the same problem too or is this just peculiar to my setup? Thanks for your help. Paul Croft 10 miles SE of Heathrow (EGLL) -= VPC OffLine Reader Version 1.2 =- Registered to: Paul F. Croft -OLR.PL v1.76- Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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Subject      Author      Message Date     ID      Using winXP to search files    PaulCroft       08-20-02              RE: Using winXP to search files    jonahbird       08-21-02       1            RE: Using winXP to search files    PaulCroft       08-21-02       2         RE: Using winXP to search files    RayProudfoot       08-21-02       3            RE: Using winXP to search files    PaulCroft       08-21-02       4                 RE: Using winXP to search files    vgbaron       08-21-02       5                      RE: Using winXP to search files    PaulCroft       08-22-02       7            RE: Using winXP to search files    James       08-21-02       6                 RE: Using winXP to search files    PaulCroft       08-22-02       8                      RE: Using winXP to search files    James       08-23-02       11                           RE: Using winXP to search files    PaulCroft       08-23-02       14                      RE: Using winXP to search files    Mike_Greenwood       08-23-02       16                           RE: Using winXP to search files    PaulCroft       08-24-02       18                                RE: Using winXP to search files    Mike_Greenwood       08-24-02       21                                     RE: Using winXP to search files    PaulCroft       08-25-02       23                           RE: Using winXP to search files    AlanParkinson       08-24-02       19                                RE: Using winXP to search files    James       08-29-02       24                                     RE: Using winXP to search files    AlanParkinson       09-06-02       26                                          RE: Using winXP to search files    James       09-07-02       28                 RE: Using winXP to search files    PeteDowson       08-22-02       9                      RE: Using winXP to search files    PaulCroft       08-22-02       10                           RE: Using winXP to search files    RayProudfoot       08-23-02       13                                RE: Using winXP to search files    PaulCroft       08-23-02       15                                     RE: Using winXP to search files    RayProudfoot       08-23-02       17                                          RE: Using winXP to search files    AlanParkinson       08-24-02       20                                               RE: Using winXP to search files    Mike_Greenwood       08-24-02       22                                                    RE: Using winXP to search files    AlanParkinson       09-06-02       27                      RE: Using winXP to search files    James       08-23-02       12         RE: Using winXP to search files    vgbaron       09-04-02       25

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