@SpectateSwamp said:
SSDS is meant for those who don't want to spend their life learning the endless software products. Just a few hours and they leapfrog the Gurus. A lifetime can be spent looking for better and the very best. All when it is right in front of you. SSDS... The greatest data / knowledge sharing tool ever.
If it is so easy then explain how a user can do various simple, likely to want tasks and compare them to how those same tasks could be done using the OS itself. To get you started I will provide a list of things I personally do regarding searching, photo viewing and mp3 play back. I will provide full steps from start to finish and different methods if more than one exist.
I would like you to give me the exact steps required with SSRR to achieve the same results, these steps need to be detailed enough for any user to follow.
Scenario One - Find a file containing a text string regardless of the file type (txt, doc, xls, ppt, pdf, xps, onenote etc.)
- Open explorer
- Type the string into the text box that is on the top right of the explorer window.
- Results are now in explorer window.
Scenario Two - find music (by title, artist, album, composer etc)
Explorer based solution
- Open explorer.
- Type the artist, album etc. into the text box that is on the top right of the explorer window.
- Results are now in explorer window. Results can be played by right clicking and selecting "play"
WMP Solution- Open Wmp
- Type the artist, album etc. into the text box that is on the top right of the WMP window.
- Results are now in WMP. Results can be played by selecting the "play" button.
In either case the results can be played in a random order by selecting "Shuffle".
Scenario Three - Search for images and display as a random slide show.
- Open explorer.
- Type the image name, date taken, keywords etc into the text box that is on the top right of the explorer window.
- Results are now in the explorer window and the slideshow can be started by clicking the "Slideshow" button.
Scenario Four - Find just about anything in fact, including emails, documents, images, mp3s, flac etc.
- Click Start
- Type relevant words (keywords, content, filename etc) into the textbox immediately above the start button.
- Likely results displayed on start menu, click "See more results" for full results.
Notice (as a simple list) things that my steps do not require a user
@SpectateSwamp said:
to spend their life learning the endless software products
- No need to understand SSRR's cryptic and undocumented syntax
- No need to merge files or understand what merging means
- No need to maintain indexes by hand
- No need to limit the users documents to text or require the user to maintain two copies of all documents.
- No need to read the source to understand the available options.
- No need to be confused by the alleged results.
- No need to look at results and then find the original file by hand anyway.
So could you explain each of the above scenarios from a SSRR users point of view? This must include all steps including building and maintaining indexes by hand, the above ones do not need that step as the OS will do this automatically.
For Scenario One please show the steps required if the string in question could be found in at least two different file types (say txt and doc).
Given how wonderful you claim SSRR is I would imagine the above steps are trivial for you to explain and prove your way is easier.