Bryanna
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2180 posts
Sep 02, 2007
10:34 AM
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As you might have read in the conversation below between Silvia and myself, you can save yourself alot of time and energy by downloading the Vegan Feast issues to your computer and indexing them by one of the two means outlined below.
(To save the early online issues to your computer, just go to the page and up on the browser toolbar, click "File", then "save as", and save as "web page, complete" They will be saved as html files and have accompanying little yellow folders with the photos for those pages.)
Save ALL the vegan Feast issues in one folder.
Then you can either download the free Copernic Desktop Search (link to it on the subscriber page-- the password-protected page), or you can use Windows Indexing (I'm totally ignorant about Mac, but I believe that MacSpinner indexes and searches).
I still think that Copernic is the easiest and most reliable, because it automatically indexes everything (you just tell it which kind of files you want indexed) on all drives.
ALSO, I think Copernic does a better job of searching, and I'll tell you why: Using the search term "bakery-style" (as in the example I use below), knew that I had a recipe for muffins with that term in the title in two issues. However, the Windows search consistently only showed one issue and Copernic showed both. When I just used the word "muffins", they both showed up in Windows search.
Another example: I searched for the term "soy and seitan" (which is in the title of many of my seitan roasts and cutlets). Windows came up with 10 hits, Copernic with 19.
(I index everything on my computer because have alot of files and search for lots of things, not just Vegan Feast recipes.)
To search Vegan Feast in Copernic Desktop Search, you can specify the type of file you want to search for (html or pdf, for instance), or just have it search all types (best if you can't remember if the recipe you want was in an earlier or later isse). Then, under the last box on the left, marked "folder", you can click "browse" and specify your Vegan Feast folder.
Then type in your search word or phrase and search. (Place phrases within quotation marks, even words with a hyphen between them!-- but they have to be the RIGHT sequence. For instance, if you are looking for the bakery-style muffin recipe, "bakery-style muffin" won't get you to the right recipe because the actual recipe name is "Big Bakery-Style Low-fat Vegan Muffins". It's better to go with simply "bakery-style" (within quotation marks), which will bring up only two files.
However, if you don't want to use Copernic, Silvia has enlightened me about the indexing capabilities of Windows. Now, I have Windows XP, and it might be different for other versions, but here is what I've discovered:
Go into "My documents". You have to right-click on the folders you want to have indexed, and click "Properties". (NOTE: You can highlight all or some of the folders all at once and do them together-- you don't have to do each one alone.) When the Properties box comes up, in "General", make sure that the "Read Only" and "hidden" check boxes are NOT checked, and click "Advanced" (down on the lower-middle right).
Now, in the "Advanced Attributes" box that comes up, make sure to click the boxes that say "Folder is ready for Archiving" and "For fast Searching, allow Indexing service to index this folder". Click "OK", the "Apply". Another box might come up asking if you want hidden and sub-folders searched-- click that one or say "Yes", then OK again. Make sure that your Adobe PDF files are indexed, since the Vegan Feasts are now in that format.
Do this in D drive as well as C, if you have some material stashed there that you want indexed.
To search Vegan Feast in Windows, click on "Start" at the bottom left-hand side of your screen an click on "Search". Click on "all files and folders" and then click on "More Advanced Options". Type in the box that says "a word or phrase in the file"-- we'll say bakery-style again (in Windows you don't have to use quotation marks if the words are hyphenated). Then, in the "Look in" box, click the drop-down menu and choose "browse". Choose your Vegan Feast folder to look in, then search.
Last Edited on 3-Sep-2007 7:22 AM
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