Sometimes we need to search for some text in exports produced by Backupery apps. Basically, the exported data is represented in text format. Even if we’re talking about HTML exports, we can treat this format as text. So searching for some term in the exported data can be treated as searching through file contents.
If you are on Mac, you may consider checking this article about searching through file contents, but in this article I’m going to show you how to search for a keyword on Windows.
There are several free & open-source search tool that allows us to search for a keyword in a number of files on Windows. For example – SearchMyFiles, GrepWin, Dngrep, etc. In this article I’m going to use SearchMyFiles that is an excellent tool and is great for our task.
Let’s say we need to search for the “Some message is here” phrase in a bunch of HTML files which are located in the “C:\Data” directory produced by the Backupery tool. How to do that:
1. Download SearchMyFiles and install it.
2. Run the tool and specify a directory where to search for the files. Specify the search term as well:
3. As you see, the app found the phrase in two html files:
Please note however, these tools don’t show an exact point in the HTML file where the search term is detected. So after opening the found file you should use the browser search feature (Ctrl+F):
Please let us know if you have any questions, we’re listening!