Hi friends, I hope I am posting in the right section. I am sure that u guys will be able to help me in this case. I am having a project on search-engine. Same as the windows search engine, it should search local files on the hard disk. Now I have no clue as to how to create an index (database). Creating a database manually will take me months. I hope there will be some command to index all the files on the Hard disk in Sql,Oracle etc. Or tell me of any idea you can get of indexing files on Hard disk.Now I think that anreavb forum is the programmers last resort, hence I am here. Hope u get some ideas soon.

Hi Khitpit.
Unfortunately, you cannot get a list of files from sql/oracle with straightforward commands.

To create a textfile of all files on the hdd:
dir c: /s /b > allfiles.txt

You can then view/search it in notepad or something.

The keywords to search google are "recursively search directory vb"

Hope this helps
Kieron


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