Support for indexing and searching eBooks?
HiI have a technical library of books. Sooner or later I will stop buying paper versions and get electronic books or digital books. However, one of the things I want is to be able to search across...
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Done with 8.1 Going back to 6.7.4
Kenward wrote: ...although, given your experience, you may not want any reminders hanging around.You are quite correct. I think I'm going to have to go into therapy. I wonder if X1 will foot the bill?...
View ArticleNot finding files in V8.1
I think you'll find that this has been in X1 since the beginning. It is certainly like that in the previous versions. (I run the two side by side.)X1 can't find "embedded strings". They have to be at...
View ArticleNot finding files in V8.1
I have 6 files in one of my folders that is being fully indexed, and they all end in "82130AAA.pdf" (one of them is named "AZDOR_82130AAA.pdf" for example).I simply wanted to find all files that had...
View ArticleNot finding files in V8.1
Harry - as Kenward noted, X1 has never supported *string* style searching. In the search world X1's approach to search is known as Prefix Based. This means that each entry you make is treated as the...
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Deleting INI, SIL, XML files from C:\
Seems to me these files were once created by X1.As most are '0-bytes' - I wonder whether they (still) serve any purpose, i.e. can I delete them?That aside, why aren't they stored in the program...
View ArticleNo text showing in install window
I'm trying to install X1 again, and now when the install window comes up there's no text in it.Either that or there's a problem with x1searchsetup.exe, which doesn't seem likely since I re-downloaded a...
View ArticleX1 Search 8.2 Public Beta - Coming Soon!
Hello!I want to take a moment to introduce myself. My name is Jerald and I am the new dedicated Product Manager for X1 Search 8. Some of you may remember me from the earlier days of X1. I returned to...
View ArticleAfter setup: Ask.. before starting indexing/set index folder
Like you, I keep the index on a different drive. The new beta just picked up on the index location from the previous version.
View ArticleAfter setup: Ask.. before starting indexing/set index folder
Assume this is still not 'fixed' in 8.2 beta ?i.e. users are not asked about the location of the previous indexes and/or where they want to indexes be place?
View ArticleAfter setup: Ask.. before starting indexing/set index folder
After a fresh install X1 automatically starts indexing and stores the index on they systemdrve (C:)With me, the index files are stored on another drive.1) In setup - ask - where X1 should store the...
View ArticleThe usual plea for those of us on "slowband"
Me again. Back because the installation on my second PC also failed. And I clicked the link that brought me here, only to discover that it takes me to a page that is useless.Come on X1, I have never...
View ArticleThe usual plea for those of us on "slowband"
Coming up to an hour into the download of the new beta. And that is just for the first of my three licences. So this is my usual complaint about the clunky and user hostile installation process.Is...
View ArticleAdvanced Local Install Instructions - NOT RECOMMENDED
Thanks.What you need to find the file is not really: C:\Users\[YOURUSERNAME]\AppData\Local\TempThat works but there is an easier method. Tell Explorer to go to:%temp%
View ArticleAdvanced Local Install Instructions - NOT RECOMMENDED
Hello,In the past, some of our beta users have asked for a method to make re-installation or installation on additional, licensed computers possible without having to re-download the install files....
View ArticleUnable to connect error ... not dead, not even resting
More feedback on this one.When I was adding a new hard drive yesterday, I needed to reboot several times. I did not see this dreaded error. So I wondered if reboots had cured the affliction.Sadly, no....
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Unable to connect error ... not dead, not even resting
I'm afraid I have to puncture X1's belief that it has squished the Unable to connect... errorBoth of my Windows 7 PCs now show this error at boot.Nice try chaps.
View ArticleSuggestion: New features - search using synonyms
Someone else suggested it before (way back in 2003) and I have been thinking about this a while already.Because I would not know how exactly it should be implemented/how it would work, I regulary...
View ArticleThe usual plea for those of us on "slowband"
I wondered if the fact that X1 was running that caused my installation to crash. Your account seems to confirm my suspicion.On the Outlook warning, the fact that it takes half an hour or more to...
View ArticleThe usual plea for those of us on "slowband"
Irrespective of the slowness of the download of the full installation program (which for me is not a problem), if the existing version of X1 is running while trying to install the X1 8.2 beta, the...
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