Everything has shifted to the cloud. From ordinary people to large corporations, people use everything from Google Drive and Dropbox to enterprise cloud storage solutions to manage their data. Keeping track of your data now becomes problematic when your files are stored across multiple accounts, devices, and platforms. You must remember where each piece of information resides. On top of that, you may encounter versioning issues…
By default, the index data files are stored in a per-user path like this: “C:\Users\**username**\AppData\Local\Copernic\DesktopSearch“ This ensures that all users of your computer have their own personal index stored in a non-shared location. If you want to move your index data files, you can do the following steps: 3. Indexing & Performance 4. click “Change”…
Copernic Desktop Search might not be able to index a mailbox who has been added to your Microsoft Exchange account if the cached mode has been activated. Cached Exchange Mode is a feature in Microsoft Outlook that allows users to use their Microsoft 365 or Microsoft Exchange Server mailbox even when they are not connected to the internet or when the network connection is slow. Outlook creates a local copy of the mailbox data, stored in an Offline Storage Table (OST) file on the user’ computer. This allows for quick access to emails, calendar items, contacts, and other mailbox data without needing a constant connection to the server when this feature is enabled. Here are the steps if you want to…
We live in the age of information overload. Our modern digital workplace bombards us with emails, cloud apps, and constant notifications. The dictionary definition of information overload is receiving too much information and being unable to think about it in a clear way. It might mean you start to tune some things out. It might mean you shut down…
Sometimes you have older files that you don’t need or want to index. You can exclude files from the index with a few steps. In the Options window, the Files tab displays the list of folders to index, and those excluded. The first part of the list indicates the name or complete path to each folder to index and the types of files to…
From time to time, we receive a question in our ticketing system that we feel would benefit others. When the question is posted in our forums, the community can read the question and subsequent responses. When it’s via an email, it is purely between the user and the agent. Today’s question is regarding OST files…
The holiday season is in full swing, full of cheer and time with friends and loved ones. However, after the holidays the data hangover hits. You’re staring at your computer screen, realizing that your files are disorganized, there are gigabytes (or even more) of data that you don’t need, and suddenly, you must deal with it. Instead of dealing with a holiday data…
You want to streamline your holiday emails to only include the people that sent you greetings during a certain time frame. Can Copernic help with this? Yes! In today’s example, I’m trying to narrow down my holiday correspondence, so I don’t send repeated emails to people that have not sent a greeting in the preferred…
Maintaining hundreds of years of data is probably one of the most difficult tasks for the Clauses and the elves. As technology has grown, they’ve moved from paper lists and letters to spreadsheets and emails. The need to have a well-oiled system remains the same for the youngest generation. Copernic’s search solutions can help them…
Society enjoys the most advanced technologies ever created, and yet, many workers still spend extremely long periods of time merely searching for information. The average knowledge worker spends 2.8 hours per week just searching for information that should be readily at their fingertips. Add to this the fact that there are plenty of additional productivity…
Even when you’ve been using Copernic for years, you sometimes discover a helpful feature that will make your searches even faster and more efficient. Copernic offers pre-defined saved searches that you can use as a shortcut or can delete from your list to keep it nice and tidy. If you have a regular search, you…
Regular users of Copernic Desktop & Cloud search know how to do what they need to do but can sometimes miss some areas that are off their radar. The Result List View is an example of this. This is a subtle drop-down on the main page. It allows you to change your view of the…