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Hi all.
Windering if any of you can give advice on an alternative to a mac based program.

As part of my daily toil, I use both a mac and a pc. That is until this coming week. The mac is no more.
Most of what I do can be done just fine with the pc, however, there is one program for the mac that I am going to miss tremendously. Sherlock.
Those of you using macs will probably know the program well
A simple search program that indexes volumes and allows me to search for files in every place they could be all at once. I deal with a huge amount of files, hundreds of pdfs of artwork being sent to me every day and they could be sat in various places on various servers.. It is so easy to bang the reference code into sherlock and search everywhere to see if it has arrived under said reference. I miss it already, it could be a nightmare without it!

This program to the best of my knowledge is not available for pc. The inbuilt search facility does not cut the mustard.
I have been recommended google desktop which apparently can index multiple volumes for search at once.
Is this the best solution or has anyone come across a more viable search alternative with Sherlock's capabilites for multiple volumes on a pc?

Many thanks for any input on this.
Yours, sherlockless
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I think there is a programme that is called cannon bridge, though aimed at photo files I think it may handle other files as well. If no one comes up with a better idea it may be worth lookinh into
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How old's your Mac? I recall it being on OS 9 but I haven't come across it on OSX... anyhow, my advice, get an Intel, Boot Camp - run the Windows OS on the Mac

The newest technology which superceded Sherlock on the Mac is Spotlight.
Spotlight is always present, and gives you search results of filenames AND file content INSTANTLY... no 'click to search'. It's a great technology.

Sherlock is still present, but now is redundant.

On the PC, I think the alternative is in Windows Vista—they've directly ripped the Mac Spotlight feature.

For sorting through files visually and with logic, Mac wins hands down.

Our PCs are so bad at this, we don't keep files on them... we serve the files from the Macs instead.

thanks for the input guys.
the files are to be searched remotely.Macs are being phased out completely in favour of pcs.
I will look into cannon bridge. thanks for that alan.
Yes siege, the macs do seem far better at searching. Somehow I think getting vista installed company wide is a long shot to say the least.

Ahh, just come across Sherlock on my travels through my Apps folder! I started using Spotlight the moment I got OSX so had no need to look for Sherlock...and ironically enough a Spotlight search for Sherlock threw up no results (but that was due to an error on my part).