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Wombat Pete
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I want to search word documents for containing a specific word in cyrillic.
When I turn file handlers ON, I get a ton of documents that DON'T contain that word.
When I turn file handlers OFF, I get NONE of the documents that DO contain that word.
Very frustrating.
Help?

PS - it doesn't depend on the cyrillic at all, with a word written in Latin letters the same thing happens.

PSS - settings: I put *.doc|*.docx in the "include files" field and I put the word I'm searching for in the "query" field. That's it.
20 days ago (modified 20 days ago)  • #1
Jon Tackabury (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
That's very interesting, do you have a file handler registered for DOCX files? It should be using Word but you can see the registrations in the FileSeek Settings window. Thanks!
17 days ago  • #2
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Wombat Pete
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Yes, apparently.

for doc: 2008.0.18363.1
for docx: 2006.1200.6605.1000

I just uninstalled fileseek and installed the latest version fresh, so everything should be there.

But this is a long-standing issue. And since the results seem wrong either way (that is, even with file handlers disabled), the problem seems broader.

Thoughts? Help!
15 days ago  • #3
Keith Lammers (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
Could you try your search, and then attach a screenshot of the Search tab and the results?
13 days ago  • #4
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Wombat Pete
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Here are 4 images - 2 with file handlers, 2 without.
The "with file handlers" results has a ton of things without the searched-for string... but not things that DO have that string.
• Attachment [protected]: FS1.png [668,578 bytes]
• Attachment [protected]: FS2.png [652,088 bytes]
• Attachment [protected]: FS3.jpg [1,828,531 bytes]
• Attachment [protected]: FS4.jpg [1,845,847 bytes]
11 days ago  • #5
Keith Lammers (BFS)'s profile on WallpaperFusion.com
Thanks! It looks like those files are temporary files that the Office file handler can't open. You can safely ignore those errors, and prevent them from showing up in the results by disabling the "Show an error when a file/folder can't be accessed" option in FileSeek Tools > Settings.

Hope that helps!
9 days ago  • #6
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Wombat Pete
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Okay, that's helpful. I note that it's an odd name for the setting - I don't see anything presented as an error, I see things presented as search results, right?
HOWEVER, and more important, note that WITHOUT file handlers, I have nothing - that is, it doesn't find things that have the search term. And WITH file handlers I'm still getting things other than temp files that DON'T have the search term. And I'm not getting all the things WITH the search term either way.
9 days ago  • #7
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Wombat Pete
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In addition, if I set "include files" to "*.doc|*.docx", I frequently get results, sometimes many, that DON'T match that requirement. Why would that be, and how can I strictly limit my search results to... to what I'm searching for?
9 days ago (modified 9 days ago)  • #8
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The "x" icon to the left of the result indicates that there was an error searching the file, and if you scroll to the right, it should show the error message.

Searching without file handlers won't work for Word documents because they're not plain text files. Searching with file handlers should work though. Could you do another search, and then export the results (right-click the results and choose "Export All Results As CSV" so that I can see the errors?

Thanks!
6 days ago  • #9
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