In an effort to make a user friendly system; to make file retrieval very easy...since there are so many filing locations in each room, I have made every room a database - this method lists the contents of each room or "Database (property address) has file locations (rooms) and withing those rooms are file locations(desks, cabinets, drawers, shelves, etc.). I believe it to separate or organize areas better. 1/ It would be OK if i could search all databases at the same time - I believe the software should be able to do this - we are 1 group of people, a family business, and have 3 business locations and 3 residences - if we are looking for example "3 inch galvanized spiral nails" why could we not search all databases simultaneously rather that each one individually? (of course I might search the one where the item was needed first) also, Did I misunderstand that, more than one category can be applied to an item?
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Permanently deleted user If databases cannot be search together simultaneously - How are two databases merged and then a third or fourth and fifth etc. to the main one? Thank you so Much - PAPERTIGER has changed my life! I am becoming new and free again.
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Permanently deleted user Can you search a item "taxes" in all locations simultaneously....... so taxes in Garage location.... taxes in the storage bin.... taxes in the file cabinet taxes on my mac... Need help.... you should be able to search any word anywhere....T
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Janet Baker Aleks,
Thank you for loving Paper Tiger! We appreciate you and are thankful that you have benefited greatly from Paper Tiger.
Paper Tiger's logic behind having the ability to create multiple databases is to be able to keep different areas separate, but also not to produce search results from the separate databases. For example, if you're searching for an item that you have in your office database, you wouldn't want the search results to bring up items from your home database.
Hope this makes sense. Thanks again for using Paper Tiger!
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Janet Baker Terry,
As long as all of these locations are in the same Paper Tiger database, your search results for 'taxes' would come up for every location within that database. If you have your documents that are housed on your mac indexed in Paper Tiger, (treating your electronic documents as if they were paper), you would be able to find all items for your search.
In other words, you select your database, you do not have to select the location that you believe your file to be in. Simply input your search word in the search box. All search results within the database will come up.
Thank you for using Paper Tiger!