Re: AskSam - is this my best choice

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Posted by 100341.2151
2006-01-13 14:50:58

Incidentally, Graham, did you know that dtSearch can be customized to search and display individual files saved to ContentSaver? I found the solution when browsing in an obscure corner of their forums. The solution goes like this (copied from their forum):
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“jerryk 2005-06-07 17:33 Parent
I found a solution to the dtsearch problem.

Under options/preferences, create new file segmentation rule

give it some name such as “contentsaver”
new doc starts at: “<html>” (without the quotation marks)
check “match start of line”
check “ignore case”
in filename filters: “*.csa” (without quotation marks)

This seems to index most everything (although I haven’t checked carefully); and in the dtsearch preview window, displays a nice html page. Post here with any reactions. Thanks.”
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It certainly seems to work for htm pages, but I am not sure about other files (doc or pdf, for example). Basically, it enables dtSearch to break up the ContentSaver database via delimiters into chunks representing the original documents. Presumably one could devise separate rules for other file-types - maybe.

If one could do this (i) reliably, (ii) for all relevant file-types within the database and (iii) for other proprietary or XML databases (Zoot, Surfulator, MyBase all come to mind) one of the major problems of having one’s data scattered over a variety of non-communicating software would be overcome.

It’s certainly making me think about the possibility of upgrading my copy of ContentSaver and using it again - at least for storing htm web pages, mainly because this provides an organized, browsable - and now potentially searchable alongside all my other HDD data - alternative (or addition) to my current mode of working.

Derek

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