File indexer SOLVED.

[dougmack]

Some time ago, on an earlier version of pclos, I had a program that created a database of every word in every document on the machine. It was slow, and you had to remember to update it every so often, but it was a great help in finding something in a document
when you can't remember the file name.  I can't remember the name of the program, and neither Google not the search function
in Synaptic finds it, even tho it is, or was, on Synaptic.  (My own ineptitude, I suppose!)  Please, somebody, remind me.

--doug

[Rudge]

Some time ago, on an earlier version of pclos, I had a program that created a database of every word in every document on the machine. It was slow, and you had to remember to update it every so often, but it was a great help in finding something in a document
when you can't remember the file name.  I can't remember the name of the program, and neither Google not the search function
in Synaptic finds it, even tho it is, or was, on Synaptic.  (My own ineptitude, I suppose!)  Please, somebody, remind me.

--doug

I am frequently "wrong" but I think that tool was called "Beagle"... I hated it.

I meticulously set up my /home/directory's  in such a way that I only have to know the "subject matter" to find the file.  

[Xenaflux]

try recoll from the repos.
On my comp it's fast

[dougmack]

Thank you.  Recoll is what it was.