Keith,
I've been using X1 for some time, and find it quite remarkable. First,
it's astonishingly fast--one of those programs that finds things as you
type them in so that by the time you've finished typing, the files are
displayed. Second, it indexes e-mail, attachments, contacts, and files
on the hard drive and can present them separately (that is, all e-mail
files, all attachments, all files) or together. It has built in filters
for photos and music extensions, so you can limit your searches to those
formats. It indexes file contents as well as file names. In a search, it
presents a list of files that include the search string on the left side
of the screen and the file contents on the right side with the search
string highlighted. Thus far, if X1 can't find it, it's not there.
You can download a 15-day a trial version from www.x1.com, and that
should give you a very good idea as to whether it will meet your needs.
I think you'll be quite impressed.
Rob
Robert H. Lavenda Professor of Anthropology Co-Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology St. Cloud State University 320-308-3034 lavenda@stcloudstate.edu