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		chinhodado on May 16, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: FSQL – Search through your file system wi... Everything does not index the content of your files, only the name and some attributes. Also MS already index file contents by default, it just sucks at it. There have been several occasions where I use the find file by name syntax and Windows can't even find the file in the current folder.

sixothree on May 17, 2017 [–]

This is exactly my point. The key to finding files is to use

  name:*mylostfile*.txt

But Everything excels at this so pretend you never saw it.

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