Still trying to complete the half-day task, begun last Thursday afternoon, of delivering a simple test fixture.
Which involves installing the software to make it work.
Which, I'm increasingly suspecting, was locked to a specific computer, most likely with some identifying information compiled into the binary. And, had I a Ouija board, I might be able to get some answers....
Anyway, it's on Windows 7. Which, coming from XP-if-you-insist, and Linux/KDE for preference, is... ugh.
Want to turn on display of hidden files, and of file extensions? The options for that used to be in the "view" menu of the file manager. Now, the file manager no longer has a menu. Options are set only via the control panel. And you're supposed to know this. Intuitively, like.
And: want to search for files modified between last June and the beginning of this year? In XP, you click "Search" in the file manager, and "All files and folders", and "When was it modified?", and there's an option to enter a range of dates. Cool! In Windows 7... there's a little search box in the file manager. You can type in a glob-style name pattern, or get strictly kindergarten-level functions by clicking on things, but to do a date-range search you need to type in a text-based filter that's in a poorly-documented language, almost as obscure as find but much less powerful, and that doesn't bloody work. I get just enough results to tell me my syntax wasn't wildly off, but nowhere near as many as there ought to have been (and not including files that are in plain sight and match the criteria). I think the answer may be "boot a Linux live CD, mount the Windows filesystem, and use find."
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