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Announcing Tonido Search: Search your computer from anywhere

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Tonido Search is a simple, easy-to-use Tonido application that enables to search your computer for files and folders from anywhere through a web browser.

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To start a search, simply enter a keyword and click search. The default search is performed against your “My Documents” folder.

Advanced Search:

Use advanced search option to

  • Search in a specific location.
  • Search between specific dates when the file or folder was modified.
  • Specify a file size to search.

The search results are displayed as the results are found. The search results will match any file or folder that matches the keyword in the name. The search progress is displayed dynamically through the search statistics.

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Download Files

The files from the search results can be clicked to download the file. The folders are given the option to drill down.

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Future Enhancements

There are many features that can be added to the search plugin such as searching for text within file contents, searching across all computers in a Tonido group etc. However, we would like to get user feedback and let that guide us toward providing more advanced search capability.

Tonido Search is now available for download in the latest Tonido release. 0.2.0.8110 (May 7th).

2 Comments

  1. If you already have Tonido installed, you can install it using Tonido Admin options.

    From Tonido Admin: Click on Apps -> Manage -> Install
    Once you install search, be sure to “Activate” it and it should now show up in your application list.

    Cheers

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