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Requirements
File Locater will work with any version of Windows that has .NET 2.0 installed.
If you do not have .NET 2.0 installed, then assuming your version of Windows supports it, you can install it from Windows Update. You should be able to find it in the Optional Updates section.
File Locater has been tested and found to work on Windows 2000, XP and Vista.
Download
File Locater is hosted by SourceForge.Net and the latest version may be downloaded from here.
You will want to download the latest ...-exe.zip
Installation
There is currently no installer for File Locater, so you will need to unzip the file you downloaded into the directory you want to run it from.
You may want to manually add a shortcut to the desktop and/or add the program to the start menu.
Running
If when you run the FileLocater.exe, you get a message along the lines of The dynamic link library mscoree.dll could not be found... then this probably means you do not have .NET 2.0 installed.
The first time you start the program up you will need to build the initial index. You do this by clicking on the text "Index has not been built. Click here for build options." This will show a dialog box where you can select which drives you want indexed. Make sure the checkboxes for those drives that you want indexed are checked, but it is probably not a good idea to check any drives that have removable media. When done press the "Build Index" button. This will take several minutes depending on how many files you are indexing.
If during the index process there are any problems accessing any files/directories, then information about these problems will be added to the list box. Most of these will simply be special Windows files/directories that Windows is hiding from you.
Uninstall of 1.1 (or later)
To uninstall the program, you will need to remove any shortcuts you manually added, remove the files you unzipped and remove File Locater's configuration and index file.
The index file is located at %LOCALAPPDATA%\GNE\FileLocater.db. Typically this would be C:\User\<user name>\AppData\Local\GNE\FileLocater.db. If you have any trouble finding it, you could always use File Locater to find it.
The configuration file is located at %LOCALAPPDATA%\GNE\FileLocater.exe_Url_<sequence of chars>\<version>\user.config.
<version> will be the version you are uninstalling, eg, for 1.1 it would be 1.1.0.0.
If you have nothing else in %LOCALAPPDATA%\GNE, then it should be safe to delete this directory.
Uninstall of 1.0
To uninstall the program, you will need to remove any shortcuts you manually added, remove the files you unzipped and remove File Locater's configuration and index file.
The index file is located at %LOCALAPPDATA%\FileLocater\FileLocater.db. Typically this would be C:\User\<user name>\AppData\Local\FileLocater\FileLocater.db. If you have any trouble finding it, you could always use File Locater to find it.
The configuration file is located at %LOCALAPPDATA%\FileLocater\FileLocater.exe_Url_<sequence of chars>\1.0.0.0\user.config.
If you have nothing else in %LOCALAPPDATA%\FileLocater, then it should be safe to delete this directory.
