Searching attachments in TheBrain

Posted by Jon Polish
Oct 8, 2015 at 11:47 AM

I have been using version 7 Pro under Windows 7 Professional for some time and never had a need to search within attachments or file links. Both are supposedly possible for several versions preceding version 7. I have a project that will require this functionality, but my experiences with 7 have not been good. Results from doc, pdf and docx files are unreliable. Many files seem not to get indexed and I have re-indexed several times. Excel files (xls and xlsx) do not work at all. I saw the recent post about the jump from 6 to 8 and read the link to Steve’s blog. That pushed me to upgrade to version 8 with the hope that search would be fixed (I read that you cannot evaluate that feature in the trial version, save for text files).

Search in 8 has the same problems as 7. I have looked through TheBrain’s forums (do they ever reach resolution for their users? - the threads just seem to end) and found several complaints from version 5 on. I cannot find a solution and wonder if anyone here has experience in this area.

Thank you.

Jon