Further in my pursuit of the perfect search and indexing software, Sean Franzen points me to Vancouver-based Wisetech Software and their Archivarius 3000 which, he says, “recognizes more file formats than DiskMeta, allows you to index data on network drives and locate your indexes on network drives. The price is very competitive also. Development has been very active for the past six months.”
It looks interesting and worth checking out. On initial glance it lacks the thing I love most about X1, Enfish and the others: a preview pane built in that lets you view the whole file, not just the context of the found string. Archivarious costs between $20 and $45, depending on whether you’re a student, and individual or a commercial entity.