Dropout: A portable search tool for USB drives and Dropbox folder

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Ever felt the need to search the contents of your USB Flash or external drive? In such cases Windows Search may not be of much help as Windows Search only searches file types it know about so that can rule out lots of different files.

Search usb dropout 400x288 Dropout: A portable search tool for USB drives and Dropbox folder

Dropout is one such free and portable tool that will let you not only search your USB but also you Dropbox folder.

This tool, written in C#, uses the Lucene full text search library and IFilter’s to search the content of your files.

To use this tool, simply place the program .exe file in the directory you want to search.

The search is super-fast and many a times takes less than a second. You can also set it to search one or multiple directories or to even exclude one or more directories. The indexing is incremental and takes place for all files. The background indexing allows you to search during indexing

You can download it and get more information on it from its home page on Codeplex.

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Anand aka HappyAndyK is an end-user Windows enthusiast, a Microsoft MVP in Windows Desktop Experience since 2007, and the Admin of TheWindowsClub.com, TheGeeksClub.com & WinVistaClub.com. Creating a System Restore Point before trying out a new software or a tweak is always recommended.

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  • Xantes

    If you want a simple, portable and light application that can search – EVERYTHING – is an application that’s called just like that: “everything”. It indexes all your drives INSTANTLY and your whatever flash drive connected at any given time! Here is the application’s home page: http://www.voidtools.com/
    There’s no need for a distinctive application not only necessarily more productive and faster but exclusively so called made for flash drives and “Dropbox” application!