File sizes for Binary files

[David]

While it should be possible to do what you are suggesting in V6. (treat .DOC and .PDF files as binary .EXE files, it is not a scenario that we have actually tested.

We can have a look at this next week.

[ecoca]

To reformulate the problem, in order to make all clear:

I have many folders with many PDF, DOC, EXE, ZIP and CHM files (some files are more than 100 MBytes long). I need to search only filenames within all these directories. The indexing is done locally. I have to display in the search result filenames and sizes. There is no need to search within the files.

I'm using the latest 6.0 professional version.

Can anyone indicate the setings I have to put in Zoom to obtain the desired result ?

Thanks for help !

[ecoca]

My bad - I forgot to mention that the indexing is done locally !

[David]

From your first post I thought the problem was just a display problem. Not an indexing speed issue.

It is not alway possible to get the file size from a HTTP server before actually downloading the file. And we didn't implment any feature to index files without downloading them.

[ecoca]

I'm sorry but this is not the solution. The program is still opening EVERY pdf file using the PDF plugin ... I do not want the program to open the pdf files (as they are huge) because the indexing takes indefinitely long time to complete.

[David]

In the scan options panel, add the extension .PDF
In the indexng options panel turn off page content.

[ecoca]

I don't see any option to do this (to treat pdf files as pdf files and not to scan thier contents) - could you guide me (I bought the latest vesion) ?

[David]

It might be better to treat them as PDF files, but instead turn off indexing of the document content.

[ecoca]

I have some directories with PDF files and I have to display filenames and fisizes (I don't need the PDF files content). Trying to do this, I set up the option to consider PDF files as Binary ones, but the program did not index the sizes (0 k displayed). Is something wrong with my settings ?