UltraFind for Macintosh - Specifications

UltraFind 2.5.3 Specifications

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Main Features

Fast Direct Disk Text Search
Ultra-fast Indexed Text Search
Document scoring system, giving highest scores to best matches
Built-in user-maintained Thesaurus cross-references search keywords
Built-in Data Reader reads documents found without opening them
Internet World Wide Web and Usenet Search
Highly flexible File Name search options
Routines menu for quick selection of frequently used search routines
Pop-up menus for selecting applications, most file types and documents
Multiple list windows showing files by Finder, Hierarchy, Text Contents and Pathname
Text Listing view, with HyperText links to a Drag? Data Reader
Multiple search results appended to one list
Export of search results list as a Tab-separated text file
Batch filing across disks and network
Multiple Confine feature (including saved folder sets)
Word Proximity (limits the distance between words to be found)
Drag & Drop text (text can be dragged/dropped into other applications)
Unique Info-Cursor giving full file info on files found

Supports

AppleScript
All MacOS volumes, plus Novell NetWare, NFS/Share and PacerShare volumes (including PC Network Servers, VMS & UNIX hosts)
Script-system / 2-byte character Compatible (Kanji, etc.)
Full Drag & Drop (files can be dragged out and dragged in)
Background scanning
Apple Remote Access

Requirements

Any Macintosh or Power Macintosh running system 7.x.x
Drag & Drop requires system 7.5.x

Simplicity

A simple interface hides complex feature-packed search options and provides visible feedback on the search criteria selected. The many search options work together to create compound searches such as "All QuarkXpress documents with the words 'product + specifications', modified this week - but not backed up".

Super-fast Text Search...

Long regarded as a benchmark for Text Search on the Macintosh, UltraFind's Text Search is highly flexible and accurate, and can search either in Direct Disk mode or Indexed mode, giving you the best of both worlds.

Alternatively, it can also search the internet ...giving you the best of THIS world.

...and cross-reference a built-in Thesaurus...

Another unique UltraFind feature, a built-in Thesaurus allows you to find documents containing related words. Were you looking for "Car" but the document had "Vehicle" or "Automobile"? With UltraFind you will find it anyway. Because YOU decide the relationship between words, you can use the Thesaurus to store your company's product codes, names, events or anything you like. Now you can search for "Power Macintosh" and UltraFind will get "7500", "8500" and "9500" as well.

On the internet UltraFind can send highly complex cross-referenced queries to the top two search engines: Excite (WWW) and DejaNews (Usenet).

Routines...

How many times each day do you have to open documents you worked on this morning or yesterday? UltraFind's unique Routines allow you to save search setups. You could simply make a Routine to always get the latest versions of your documents every time you press [control-1]... Or have UltraFind perform a complex internet search everytime you press [control-2], etc.

Flexibility with File Names...

You want the files called "Image" but only the ones ending in ".gif", and only if they start with "B-"? No problem:

...and File Types...

You want all your Excel files, all Photoshop TIFFs on your system, all email, all fonts on a CD-ROM, or even all fonts on your network? You can ask UltraFind for any type of Macintosh file - just select the type you need from it's menu.