Google Community: Directing Google Desktop Search

Google Community Forum Index :: FAQ :: Search :: Memberlist :: Resources

Directing Google Desktop Search You're visiting Google Community as a guest. In order to post, you'll need to register and log in. (If you were registered and logged in, these advertisements wouldn't be here)
	Google Community Forum Index // Google Desktop Search Forum

Guest

0.00 GC$

Items

Posted: Sat May 21, 2005 5:15 pm Post subject: Directing Google Desktop Search

Is there a way to tell Desktop search that you ONLY want to look in a particular folder and its subfolders? I have not found this.

Thanks, Alan

Guest

0.00 GC$

Items

Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 8:30 am Post subject:

I believe this is a valid question. Also, I have mounted a secondary hard drive on my Win2K system under my personal folders.

Now I find that Google Desktop Search will not index files located on the newly mounted drive. Any idea why?

Guest

0.00 GC$

Items

Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 9:16 am Post subject:

To illustrate...

I have a hard disk mounted under `C:\Documents and Settings' named after my userid. Much to my dismay, none of the documents on that hard drive are being indexed (despite the fact that the index files themselves reside on that drive).

The only thing I can query via Google Desktop Search is my Outlook PST file, which happens to reside on a network drive.

Is there something I can do to force the LOCAL drive mounted under `c:\Documents and Settings' to get indexed?

I guess I can settle for the Microsoft built-in search functions

[IMG]http://www.photodump.com/direct/boog/gds00.jpg[/IMG]

Guest

0.00 GC$

Items

Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 7:25 pm Post subject:

Well, after searching further, I found a utility called TweakGDS, which allowed me to reindex my disks. After doing so, everything is searchable.

Thanks for the help!

Sponsored Links

Posted: 5 Dec 2008 10:37 am Post subject: Advertisements

	Google Community Forum Index // Google Desktop Search Forum	All times are GMT - 8 Hours
Page 1 of 1

Jump to:

You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum

Host your free forums with Invision Plus.net forum web hosting with your own subdomain.

alexisBlue v1.2 // Theme Created By: Andrew Charron // Icons in Part By: Travis Carden

This website is not affiliated in any way with Google, Inc.
Google™ is a registered trademark of Google, Inc.