Trying to find a way to acces the Windows Indexing Service, same service used for QUICK searches for files and folders. Wrote a batch routine to search HD for data,and it sweeps the whole drive taking hours to complete a search and copy. If I could tap into the MS Indexing Service, I could automate the process faster without having to sweep the entire HD for matches.
Any suggestions, and has anyone tapped into this service before. From what I hear its pretty locked out by MS ... but I am sure someone must have cracked it by now to access the Index Database which has the map of all files and folders for quicker data access vs sweeping an entire hard drive for matching data.
For example my batch does:
XCOPY c:*.doc g:*.* /s/d/y
to copy all the DOCs on my system to my thumb drive, and it takes almost 3 hours to complete since it is searching all folders on the hard drive for matches through the entire tree. If I could tap into the Indexing, I could have the data copied in a few minutes depending on how many DOC files are found and their size.
This tool isnt for me, since I keep my data well organized, its a tool for hunting down users data for users who drop data everywhere. and during a system rebuild is a P.I.T.A. trying to locate and backup all data befoe a wipe of the HD and rebuild.
Even if there was a mod out there that tapped into the Windows Search feature to tell the search to copy all files with *.doc, *.xls, *.mdb, *.ppt ...etc that woudl be awsome over having to manually search and copy data.
Any suggestions!
Thanks,
Dave
