Is your hard drive akin to hundreds of year old tropical forest? Mine is – the whole 160 virtual acres of it. And that’s only one computer. I cringe when I think of sorting through stuff or even trying to organize it. This is definitely one of the drawbacks of obscenely huge drives. Whenever something goes in, it seems like it’s almost impossible to find when I need it.
Do you feel that way? Don’t get me wrong. For the most part I’m pretty organized with my hard drive. I’ve got stuff filed in neat folders and I usually know where to find the most commonly used stuff yet sometimes despite my best efforts of searching some files still slip through the crack into virtual oblivion. Well actually it’s only hidden to the human eye.
A while back, someone asked me about desktop search software, if I had some other suggestion other than Google Desktop, Yahoo or even MSN. Then, I didn’t like desktop search programs because I tried one and boy did it suck my resources big time. To make it worse, each time I wanted to find and open a file it seems the darn thing would kick into high gear slowing my computer down considerably and mind you, I have a fast PC.
A month ago, forced into action by the rapidly growing jungle in my computer, I tried Copernic Desktop Search and I’m truly surprised at this thing. It’s not only fast but it does it’s job without getting in my way. The nice part about it is it can search network drives (those not on my computer). I can quickly filter my search by file, image, videos, music and get this.. email. To me the email part is the clincher because I don’t use Outlook, I use Thunderbird. And unlike Outlook, there are few tools that
work with Thunderbird. So now, I don’t even have to power up Thunderbird just to search the emails (yet another virtual jungle). That is sweet. Since using Copernic, I’ve found so many files I just never realized was there or completely forgotten about.
The tool is free, and I recommend Copernic Desktop Search.
