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haichen · Last edited by haichen on Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:25 pm; edited 1 time in total

I made my first Post in the thread ndff Gui -

http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16366
Because i wasn't registered I can't change the items of my first post.

So I open this new threat. I hope that's OK.

Here's a short summarize about ndff Gui:

NDFF is a commandline desktop searchprogramm.
NDFF stands for: NTFS Direct File Find. That means:

It works onfly for NTFS.
It works by looking in a special File named MFT. Its the system Data Table.
So the search is very fast.
Because you don't need to index your Harddisk your searchresult is uptodate.
And last not least you there is no installation and you can take it with you on a stick.

...but:
it searches a whole partition and so there is no searching in a single directory.

on my amd xp 1800 a search takes 29 sec for 30 GB on c:\ as pure DOS
With my Gui there are 5 more seconds.
The author speaks of 10 sec for 30 GB.

My Gui has not not all switches of the pure DOS-program but you can search in subdirectories and you

can search now by Time and Size. You can't do that on the commandline.

And thanks to Corrupt's new CmdRet_stream function the Listview is dynamically updated.

Here You find the ndff-website
http://ndff.hotbox.ru/en/index.html
and the download of ndff.exe v0.9.6
http://ndff.hotbox.ru/bin/0.9.6/dl.en.html

Another thread about ndff
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic14164.html

ndff.exe has to put in the same directory as the Gui-script

If you find some files with the script you can doubleclick the file. The explorer will be opened with

the selected file.

If you want to search in a directory you can click directly on the button "show only in this Folder"
or you singleclick first on one file in the Listview and afterwards on the button.

NDFFGUI.ahk

special thanks to corrupt!
and of course thanks to all other people who helped me and commented my script!