Comments on: Goodbye, X1. Hello (again), Copernic!

By: Dennis Bareis

Dennis Bareis — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 08:21:48 +0000

I originally had issues with indexing in “Yahoo Desktop Search”, after reporting it they seemed to fix it as I never had issues in newer versrons. Now its been replaced with X1 (free version I assume) and the same issues are there:
1. Too agressive with index, in fact I’m not even sure the indexing related options work.
2. If it decides to stop/pause indexing for a while it can and frequently does do this IN THE MIDDLE OF SCANNING A FILE!!!!!

I too will be going back to Copernic…

By: Thierry

Thierry — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 23:03:45 +0000

I was wondering how Copernice does its Outlook integration? Do they read a PST file on disk or do they somehow have a plugin or automation method for Outlook?

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:28:51 +0000

X1 *can* index bookmarks and cache, you just have to include the appropriate folders in “Advanced Options”

By: Djepie

Djepie — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:23:50 +0000

I am using Copernic with great pleasure for about a year and my Copernic search database already is about 500MB. Now I see that he is not indexing OUtlook anymore. In the options > email I see Outlook and OUtlook Express, but none of them marked. I also cannot mark Outlook, WHY NOT? I already uninstalled en reinstalled, restarted laptop etc, but no solution. Please help, djepie@gmail.com

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 16:19:46 +0000

I love copernic and it worked fine with LAN drives and outlook express. However it hangs with Outlook 2003 when you open the email setup box in “options”. It is obviously getting into problems with the .OST files I have (outlook is set up to move all my emails to a local .OST file).

Does anyone know why this is?

By: Chris Pirillo

Chris Pirillo — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Told ya.

By: Amit Agarwal

Amit Agarwal — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Yes, Copernic rules at the moment but X1 gains on few points.

1. The latest x1 5.1 beta supports lotus notes.
2. X1 can index almost all the file types 250+
3. X1 can index network drives.

If you are not looking for the above features, you can go for Copernic.

Just my 0.02 cents.
Amit
Desktop Search Blog

By: Guillaume

Guillaume — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Hi,

Copernic can index network drive.

By: Zaine Ridling

Zaine Ridling — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I’m not concerned as much about current features as price, although I appreciate others doing the grunt work of evaluating these search apps. Whatever problems X1 has, it will inevitably get better, however, I can’t justify the high cost. On my site, I’ve noticed that more than half of all shareware updated in the past 15 months has increased in price by an average 40% jump. And for one-trick utility software, that’s inexcusable and cannot garner recommendations to friends and colleagues.

By: Biagio

Biagio — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I’ve been researching desktop search tools and can not find the answer to a question. What is the difference between supporting Outlook and Exchange? If it supports Outlook shouldn’t it be able to support exchange as well? Can someone please help.

By: Ed Bott

Ed Bott — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Exchange mailboxes are stored on a server and synchronized with the Exchange client, which is Outlook. To work with Exchange, a utility generally has to run on the server.

If you use Outlook for Internet standard email, your messages are stored locally, and any utility runs locally and interacts exclusively with the client.

Does that help explain?

By: Biagio

Biagio — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Yes that helps, Thanks Ed

By: Biagio

Biagio — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

One more question. How about when you have personal folders set up in outlook. where it downloads messages from the server?

By: Ed Bott

Ed Bott — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Outlook has two file formats for Personal Folders. The PST format is for Personal Folders, which are used when you use Outlook with Internet standard email accounts (POP and SMTP). The OST format is used to maintain local copies of messages that have been synchronized with an Exchange Server, so that you can read them when you’re offline.

I strongly suspect (but don’t know for sure) that any locally installed utility will index an OST file just as it would a PST file. But it won’t do anything for the messages that remain on the server.

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I love Copernic. Was working great till I started using Offline folders in outlook (OST). Unlike PSTs it will not recognize my OST file. Is this a bug?