I don’t normally talk about new features before they’re released, but today is an exception. Currently in beta (and a free download), version 7.15 of GeoStudio 2007 will now allow Windows to search within .gsz files.
Update 25 September: version 7.15 has now been released. The release can be downloaded from here.
(This feature will only be officially supported on Vista and Windows 7, though there are reports it sort of works on XP and Windows 2000 as well.)
For example, I’ve got some GeoStudio files in my Documents folder on Windows 7. Rather than finding the name of the file I want, I can search right from the Start button for some words inside the file.
Here I’ve searched for “toe drain”, and (in amongst a bunch of html files) I’ve found two GeoStudio files that have “toe drain” somewhere inside them.
Open one of them up, and we can see “toe drain” appeared in several places: the file’s comments as well as each analysis’ description.
In fact, Windows Search will search the author, file comments, analysis names and descriptions, and most other objects you can name (such as materials, boundary conditions, and so on).
If you are using Vista or Windows 7 already, I encourage you to download the beta and try this feature out. Leave a comment here or email me with any suggestions or problems you run into.
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