hdm21 Posted January 13, 2016 Report Share Posted January 13, 2016 Hello, I am having a trouble with the large amount of data (1,000s of files) that I am sending to my computer from Labview. After a while it is impossible to find the file that I want, even if I name the correctly. Does anyone know about an easy searching tool? Thanks Quote Link to comment
Benoit Posted January 13, 2016 Report Share Posted January 13, 2016 (edited) If you indexed your drive, you could use The built-in tools from Microsoft. If your files are small, you could use a database to store the information. It will be quite easy to find it later. You can even create your own tools using Labview. Using notepad++ you can do a search easily as well. even with data inside of your file "text file". Edited January 13, 2016 by Benoit Quote Link to comment
hooovahh Posted January 13, 2016 Report Share Posted January 13, 2016 Crosspost where DataFinder is mentioned. Quote Link to comment
fff131 Posted January 13, 2016 Report Share Posted January 13, 2016 Like is mentioned in the [crossost](http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/searching-tool/td-p/3237619) hooovahh mentioned, I have used rinocloud.com to manage large amounts of spectrum data in my lab, its currently in beta, but I have a few invites I can share. rinocloud integrates with labview. I use it to save large amounts of spectrum files (10,000s per day, typically a few Kb per file). I can attached measurement metadata to a file so searching later is easy Quote Link to comment
Benoit Posted January 14, 2016 Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 I'll have to take a look at rinocloud it looks interesting! Quote Link to comment
hdm21 Posted January 14, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2016 Thank you fff31, I signed in Rinocloud. But I twitter them and I send them an email in order to get early access. I really like the tagging and comment data tools, it is easy and fast to use. Totally recommended. Quote Link to comment
MJM99 Posted May 5, 2016 Report Share Posted May 5, 2016 Hey, I have to say that Rinocloud is doing a great job with data management and collaboration. They have improved the searching tool, collaboration team project, integrations. Great Rinocloud Quote Link to comment
mwebster Posted May 11, 2016 Report Share Posted May 11, 2016 If you're looking for a particular file with a known filename, I cannot recommend enough voidtools.com Everything search tool. I seriously don't know how I got along without it. It indexes every file on fixed disk locations (takes a minute or so on first startup) and after that, it winnows through the file list as fast as you can type. Works with wildcards as well. I have mine running on startup and bound to Win+A. It's really great for finding duplicate files, projects, different DLL versions. It doesn't look inside the file at all, but for many, many needs I haven't found anything else that can touch it. 1 Quote Link to comment
Michael Aivaliotis Posted May 15, 2016 Report Share Posted May 15, 2016 Are you the one naming the files? Why not create a folder structure and naming convention that does not require searching? A predictable naming strategy will allow you to locate the file based on the pre-designed naming algorithm. I have no idea if you can control the naming but just wanted to suggest this. Quote Link to comment
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