> All I can say is that apparently I don't deal with volumes of data large 
> enough to make searching necessary. (Then again, I always thought that if 
> you have to *search* your files, you haven't organised them properly...)

Usually it's folders of files which are not from me (eg a programming 
library) which I find I need to search.

Also the folder system used on most file systems only lets you put a file 
into one location (unless you get tangled up with soft and hard links or 
hundreds of shortcuts).  With a proper DMS a file should be filed under 
several different categories (eg "Project A", "General electrical issues", 
"Work done by Scott", "Work for customer X", etc).  As this isn't easily 
possible using Windows Explorer then the only option sometimes is to search.

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