Google Desktop Search with Win8.1

A few months ago, I replaced my XP with a new Asus with Win 8.1. Now, I have generated a number of docx and xlsx files.

Google Desktop finds only two docx and one xlsx files. I have updated and re-indexed twice and giving it a couple of weeks in between to do indexing, it still does not find these files.

I have specified the folders and drives in the preferences to no avail.

Is there something I have missed?

Regards,

Dave C.

 

Welcome to the world of Micro$uck..

 

Does it make a difference, what account you install it with,
or what account you run it with ?

Paul

 

Paul,

I am not sure how to answer this. I am a single user and the administrator.

My prior computer had three separate hard drives: C:, D:,and E:.

My new computer has only one hard drive, one terabyte.

This new computer has one titled C: drive, the main drive.

Also there is a folder on this drive that contains all the files from the old C: drive.

There is another folder that contains all the user files from my old D: drive.

There is a third folder that contains all the user files from my old E: drive.

So basically this single terabyte drive has all my user files but distributed in separate folders.

For example, in the C: drive, I have a Word folder that contains a dozen or more docx files and Google searching for *.docx only reports two files.

I know this is wordy but maybe there is an answer somewhere in my description

Regards.

Dave C.

 

OK, I've never used that Google product, so I have
nothing to go on.

I would do a search, where you give a wild card that returns "everything".
Maybe if you leave the search box blank, it'll return all the files.
Then, look for a pattern as to what files are (apparently)
in the index. If some disk-sized groups of files are missing,
perhaps the ownership permissions of the files have caused
Google to not index them. (Google was worried about information
leakage at one point, so if data files are owned by two accounts,
and you're searching using one of the accounts, it may not list
the files owned by the other account.)

Some examples of trying to fix ownership issues.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tims/archiv...vista-secret-11-deleting-the-undeletable.aspx

http://serverfault.com/questions/154018/take-ownership-of-ntfs-volume-after-moving-to-new-machine

Also, you have to be careful about the syntax of what you feed search
engines. Some developers would use regex expressions, without telling
you that they're doing so. Microsoft has their own search language as
well, like "ext:docx" to aid in crafting expressions. I doubt you're
feeding it something that exotic, but consider whether your
command is somehow being misinterpreted.

Paul

 

Paul,

I have narrowed down the issue.

It seems that all the files generated on my previous XP computer with Office 2000 are recognized fine. (*.doc, *.xls. etc.)

Now that I am running Office 2007 that generates file extensions such as *.docx. *.xlsx. these file extensions somehow do not get recognized with Google Desktop search even after I updated it.

As time goes on, I may look to an alternate desktop search engine.

Regards and thanks for your ideas,

Dave C.