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alternative to locator
Authored by: alec kinnear on Jan 28, '03 01:30:10AM
locator is great but as mentioned above needs regular update. it also doesn't supply enough info about a file when you've found it. after using locator for a long time, i actually prefer to us CDFinder 3.6 and keep the local databases up-to-date (not a lot slower than locator). this allows me to keep my archival and current searching in one place.

in fairness i use both solutions much less now that the finder does a reasonably good job searching. i have five disks inside my tower so i sometimes still prefer cdfinder as the results are instant and don't require spinning up all the disks.

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