Search functions

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Search functions

Post by ipaj » 2004-06-02 14:47

First of all it would be very nice if it was possible to have more search options

for example: DIrectorys with DVDRIP and have the option to exclude -SVCD when the search resultat is shown.

2:

When i download a users list it will compare with my own shared file list and only show uniq files/dirs alt. compare with a .txt list.

//Ipaj

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Post by BSOD2600 » 2004-06-02 15:02

1) Mods such as BCDC have this feature

2) No comment

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Re: Search functions

Post by GargoyleMT » 2004-06-03 09:23

ipaj wrote:When i download a users list it will compare with my own shared file list and only show uniq files/dirs alt. compare with a .txt list.
If you read the feature tracker (linked within DC++ and the sticky), you can see something that could perform essentially the same thing: here. In general any feature that encourages someone to download every file a remote user has isn't very beneficial, in my opinion. ;)

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Post by Cyborg » 2004-06-07 17:54

The second feature could be useful for comparing game dirs or music dirs...to see what files/songs is missing.

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Post by GargoyleMT » 2004-06-08 09:26

Cyborg wrote:The second feature could be useful for comparing game dirs or music dirs...to see what files/songs is missing.
It might only work if they have the same exact copy you have - with neither of you retagging. And this can be accomplished with other features, such as the suggested one to highlight/hide files that you already have in filelists and searches.

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Post by datajesus » 2004-06-20 17:46

first feature is somthing i would like most :)

second is just plain waste of time, if you are not into collecting roms or extremly rare files that will allways have a specific checksum value.. :wink:

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Post by Gasp » 2004-06-21 07:38

Yeah, the first feature is something I've wanted for some time. I've always wished there was a possibility to enhance the search option besides a basic string search. Exclude some strings, look for whole phrases etc - just like in most of web search engines:

U2 -spy -airplane "Still haven't found what I'm looking for"

...and so on. I believe it would be useful and not so hard to implement (at least in terms of pure programming but I don't know how about the protocol stuff). Hope this wasn't already requested.

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Post by GargoyleMT » 2004-06-21 19:22

Gasp wrote:...and so on. I believe it would be useful and not so hard to implement (at least in terms of pure programming but I don't know how about the protocol stuff). Hope this wasn't already requested.
It's not necessarily hard to implement, but it is hell for interoperability.

It has been requested before: [ 660802 ] Exact searching and AND/NOT

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Post by Gasp » 2004-06-22 04:55

Sorry, I apparently didn't look hard enough.

But as someone there noticed NOTing the results - unlikely other operators - can be done solely at the side of the client that sends the search request.
ADC protocol draft already supports it, although obviously both NOTing and ANDing are done by the receiver.

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Post by GargoyleMT » 2004-06-22 10:53

Gasp wrote:But as someone there noticed NOTing the results - unlikely other operators - can be done solely at the side of the client that sends the search request.
Sure, but you can't change the order of the 10 results that you get back (or 5 in passive searching) - so you could end up with false negatives due to doing the filtering on the client end. That's a pretty big gotcha.

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