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I think there should be a type of "Instant Search" in the log viewer. Sometimes we want to remember what someone said but we dont rememeber when, who, where, or why they said it; we just know what they said.
By simplying putting words of the phrase, then instant search in log viewer would help out.

This would be useful, and also, wouldnt it be fairly easy to do, patchou?

This is possible, Just press CTRL+F just as you would to search for text in your web browser.

Hope this helps

~Salem

I think riahc4 means searching _all_ the available logs, not just the current open one...

Aka: the same as when you use Windows Explorer to search for a phrase in a file in a directory and all its subdirectories...

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
I think riahc4 means searching _all_ the available logs, not just the current open one...

Aka: the same as when you use Windows Explorer to search for a phrase in a file in a directory and all its subdirectories...

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Yeh now i understand. I agree that would be great to have.

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
I think riahc4 means searching _all_ the available logs, not just the current open one...

Aka: the same as when you use Windows Explorer to search for a phrase in a file in a directory and all its subdirectories...

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Exactly.

For example, I stopped talking to a friend a long time ago. And I was trying to search our last conversation but it is impossible because I dont remember the date.
Putting their email or a date or a text or a nickname or something should bring up anything related to it. I think Patchou should make Messenger Plus! be able to use the WDS 3.0 platform for Plus! logs including also his old method of Find thru search logs.

But it would be a pain for your CPU if you have your logs encrypted with a password and have to decrypt them all first before you can search in them...

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Originally posted by Mattike
But it would be a pain for your CPU if you have your logs encrypted with a password and have to decrypt them all first before you can search in them...

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And could take a long time to, especially if the majority of the logs are big.

And also what happens if you changed passwords as well, you would also have to enter the password for each log which just adds to the time.  Plus then when it is looking through does it keep a decrypted copy so that it is quick for you to search through later or do you go for security and have to then decrypt them again when you are checking the hits to your queries?

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Originally posted by markee
And also what happens if you changed passwords as well

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Not being able to search encrypted logs (that is: logs with a different pwd than the default stored one in memor) would be a limitation which many people could live with I suppose.

Not all people use encryption (in most cases it is useless or not needed anyways).

Being able to search all logs in all subdirs would be a massive major improvement on its own, despite this limitation.


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Originally posted by Mattike
But it would be a pain for your CPU (...)

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Originally posted by vaccination
And could take a long time to, especially if the majority of the logs are big.

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That is no reason to not have it. If I follow that same reasoning then there shouldn't be any search feature in any program or even in Windows at all; searching contents wouldn't exist in that case, nowhere.

Of course searching can take a while, if you don't want to wait, don't search...