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Baxter

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Hi there. How do you people deal with huge amounts of documents? We have a few computers in the local network and finding a particular document sometimes becomes a nightmare... standard windows search definitely doesn't help...
 
The battle is already lost. The best way to find things is to formulate a strategy before you start filing them. By narrowing down the search area, or having better info to key on, standard search tools will work fine.

1. Have a folder structure with some logical categories

2. Have meaningful filenames or add some sort of suffix string to the filename

3. Add keywords in applications/databases where that is possible.

Basically you need a document control system, without which almost nothing would ever get built in the real world.

Taking a silly example, if you sell stuff and sort documents by alphabetical customer name, it's not too difficult to find Mr Smith, he's under "S".

I guess someone will have to sit down and figure out if it is worth/feasible doing something about the problem.

Starman*
 
SearchInform full text search system positions itself as a corporate tool for data search in the enterprise LANs. Supports practically all existing formats, searches in databases, DBMS, CRM, etc.; processes queries with a very high speed and works with virtualy all data volumes. The best thing about it is its ability to consolidate information from different data sources into one.
http://www.searchinform.com/
 
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