Index Your Files is a portable file search alternative for the Windows operating system. It uses an index that needs to be created on the first run and consecutive runs. The index can either consist of the contents of selected hard drives, partitions or individual folders.
The index is automatically compressed by the file search software which does not noticeably affect the speed of the program.
Several filters are provided in the program’s interface. It is possible to search by name, file extension, time period, file contents or file sizes.
The program can maintain multiple indexes which can be searched together or individually. All results are displayed in the same interface with their name, folder, file extension, size, data and database the entry was found.
Selected files are automatically shown in the preview area. Not all files can be previewed but it works fine for images and plain text documents but not other formats like Microsoft Word or Excel files.
Several controls are available at the bottom of the search interface that can be used to open files, add them to the clipboard, copy, move or delete files and to export the selected files to a csv file.
One interesting option is the import of search databases which offers another interesting application: Searching the databases that have been created on other computer systems. All that needs to be done to do that is to create the index on another computer system and import that index of the files in the program. This is even easier than it sounds because of the portability of the file search application.
The search is not as fast as that of other Windows file search tools like Everything but the additional options might make the program interesting for users who prefer the features provided by Index Your Files.
Index Your Files can be downloaded from the developer’s website. A language pack for additional languages such as German or Spanish is provided by the software developer as well.
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Martin, you wrote:
“The search is not as fast as that of other Windows file search tools like Everything.”
It’s hard for me to reconcile your statement with my own experience of Index Your Files. I’ve used IYF for years because I find it blindingly fast. What kind of comparison have you done among IYF, Everything, and these other (unnamed) search tools that you have compared it to?
Of course, IYF is an indexing tool. To be up-to-date it needs a currently created index of what’s on your computer. Creating the index takes a few minutes. But it has a built-in scheduler which I run in the middle of the night to index my daily changes.
Anyhow, my experience is that IYF as fast, or faster than, other search apps I’ve tried.
We use in our company Lookeen. It has Shared Index and is great for the search for the central Indexing of used data within the company.
you can try it here www.lookeen.net