Windows File Indexing - current progress

Hi, the only progress indicator I know of is Indexing Options.
Have you checked to see if tpl types are indexed as here?
And I assume

appropriate changes

means you have selected the folders where these files reside.


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These build and maintain an index of files and folders on all disks/partitions, and search is find-as-you-type with various levels of filtering or restriction. They do not index content.

If you watch Indexing Options after specifying sthg new to index you will see activity when indexing, and indication of how many items are indexed. That's your progress indicator. Complete is complete.

Now you mention

cannot find text strings in the .tpl.

1. Can you find the files?
2. If so, have you checked this for the folder(s) containing your files?


And this should be checked for tpl file type.

After that, I'm wondering if its content isn't being indexed because Windows does not recognise it as of kind text. Perhaps you need to assign it as such.

Screenshots help enormously. Could you please post one like this? (And yes, that's my '10 not '7).

It takes a minute or two to rebuild that index.

As to whether your index is effective, I'll ask again, can you actually find any files (names, not content) that should be indexed?

Now, and not immediately directly relevant to your issue, what I have found that despite everything being set up to index content of rtf files, taking and example of a folder and files which should be so indexed, whatever I do, rtf's content isn't indexed. (txt files are). I don't use Windows search content indexing normally, and use other tools as I mentioned. I find that very puzzling.

(I used to use Google desktop search which does work - I recently set that up again- the only one I know of that supports OCR'g and indexing e.g. image base pdf's).

Search indexing backs off if your PC is even slightly busy. If everything's fast, indexing should be fairly quick, depending on how many items and how much content indexing there is to do, as you'd expect. I can see mine progress in stages- just 12,000 or whatever it was.

Having noted rtf's aren't being indexed (as they should) - and I've not checked other file types- it's quite possible your tpl files aren't being indexed.

The registry contains this:

(PerceivedType).
I even tried changing that to text as per txt files which are indexed, restarting and rebuilding- no difference.
Windows also allocates file types to a 'kind' as per the document below. For example, two video file types - divx and flv- are not by default designated as of kind video, but can be so set manually so their thumbnails appear.

I'm wondering as above if that is relevant (I've now shown it's not- doxcx, rtf, pdf and txt are all of kind documents, but the 1st 3 aren't indexed by content), or there's simply a bug in Windows search- which, as I said, really isn't worth the effort of trying to use beyond the trivial.

Windows search has too many quirks and oddities to be reliable for all uses- it's useful for fairly trivial searches, and to support start menu and settings searches. But you can use more complicated syntax.. if you can recall it on the odd occasion it's needed.

E.g. Maybe

?x*.* NOT yx*.* kind:video foldername:Videos\Myfamily date:last week

(If I've got that right, which is very unlikely). Yes, well. I rest my case.
Advanced Query Syntax (Windows)

Thanks- I have a pdf filter listed- I'm guessing it simply doesn't work. I'm going to try changing my pdf defaults.
rtf - I've tried Wordpad and WPS (Kingsoft) as default- neither work.

As for docx, I use WPS (Kingsoft) - but now I've checked that, there's no filter for that, so that explains that.

For me it's no more than curiosity- Windows search is problematical, so I only use it minimally.