Search¶
Type into the search box and ArchiveMind searches its catalogue — file names, paths, metadata, and text extracted from inside documents — and returns results ranked by relevance, with matches in more important fields (such as the file name) weighted more heavily.
What search covers¶
- File names and folder paths.
- Metadata — for example photo dates and camera information, or audio tags, where the file format provides them.
- Extracted text — the readable text inside supported documents. Very large documents are indexed up to an extraction limit, so an enormous file is searchable by its beginning rather than its entirety.
Search works on everything indexed so far — including files on drives that are currently disconnected. Results from a disconnected drive are labelled as such; see Disconnected drives.
Tips for better results¶
- Search runs on words, not meanings. Regular search finds files containing the words you typed. To find photos by describing what is in them, use Visual search.
- Try distinctive words. A rare word from inside a document narrows results much faster than a common one.
- Results improve while a scan runs. During indexing, files that have not yet reached the text-extraction stage match only by name and metadata.
If results seem off, see Too few search results and Unexpected search results.