That’s where file indexing and cataloguing software comes into the picture. People who remember the dawn of the personal computer era may remember a Lotus Development Corp. Magellan scanned your hard drive (back in the days when a really big hard drive might be 5-10 megabytes) and produced a searchable index. If you could remember a phrase or text string, Magellan would show you a list of the files that contained that text string. It even had “viewers” allowing you to peek inside the file without actually opening it in its native software. Once Windows became widespread, MS-DOS programs like Magellan lost their usefulness.
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