Searching inside docs stored on a USB drive

August 23, 2007 1:15 PM

USB drive search: I need a Google Desktop Search-like application to index (and search inside) MS Word documents stored on a portable USB drive. The catch is that I don't have administrator rights on my work machine, so this program can't be installed on the computer itself: it has to go solely on the USB drive. Help?

Thanks in advance for your help.

posted by gd779 to computers & internet (3 comments total)

Gaviri Pocket Search.
posted by luser at 1:25 PM on August 23, 2007

To clarify, because it's not obvious from their website, but you can customize the setup so that it installs onto the thumbdrive, and not on the desktop. I called and asked them about it because I had your same requirements.
posted by luser at 1:27 PM on August 23, 2007

So far, that seems to be working. Thanks luser!
posted by gd779 at 4:36 PM on August 23, 2007