Search reports, showing hits in retrieved documents, along with the requested amount of context.

A field button, showing all indexed document fields.

Browse and customize thesaurus options.

A look-up word feature, detailing the effect of fuzzy, phonic, wildcard, stemming and thesaurus search options.

A scrolling word list, for instant feedback as you type in a search.

Once dtSearch has built an index, it can automatically update it using the Windows Task Scheduler to reflect additions, deletions and modifications to your document collection. Indexing is easy - simply select folders or entire drives to index and dtSearch does the rest. dtSearch can instantly search terabytes of text because it builds a search index that stores the location of words in documents. Ideally, you should leave the computer alone until indexing finishes.DtSearch Desktop provides instant searching of desktop-accessible files.

For example, you may want to start searching a new cabinet immediately. You can run the indexer any time you want. You may want to let the indexer run for the first time during the night or when you'll be away from your computer for awhile. NOTE: If your cabinets have a lot of files, it could take awhile to build the initial indexes. Follow the directions in the next section. If you want to begin searching immediately, you'll need to start the indexer now. The indexer will run at the next scheduled time and build an index for your cabinets. In the list of cabinets, put a check mark next to each cabinet that you want to make searchable.Set a schedule for when you want the indexer to run. The indexer needs to run periodically to keep your indexes up to date.Make sure that Enable Auto Indexer is checked.Select the dtSearch Indexing option on the left.To enable indexing, just follow these steps: FileCenter will take care of the indexing automatically you just have to enable it. Explanationīefore you can search your cabinets, they have to be indexed. This only applies to FileCenter Professional using the dtSearch engine (not Windows Search). This article describes how to enable search for a cabinet.

Dtsearch file list