Thunderbird has no license key, so I assume you have found a bug in your desktop search engine.

Ah, just looked at the image... apparently copernic want you to pay a license fee to search those particular data types. Personally I think it would want to be good to pay those sorts of data specific licenses.

Matt, Matt said

Personally I think it would want to be good to pay those sorts of data specific licenses.

Thanks for the response. I don't quite understand your last sentence. You think I should pay for the Thunderbird license? And if Thunderbird has no license key, where/how do I pay for it?

Sorry, I still don't understand the concept.

I am saying copercic must be a very good product for you to pay to use it and pay for additional licenses to search specific data types.

Your whole question here is about the fact your license for these various data files has expired in Copernic. It has nothing at all to do with Thunderbird.

The dialog makes it obvious to me that Copernic charge a license fee to access/Search documents based on their source, Microsoft office, OCR, Thunderbird etc on an individual basis.

Looking to their sales page this is confirmed in spades. http://www.copernic.com/en/store/desktop-search/

Thunderbird is 1.99 a year extra apparently http://www.copernic.com/en/store/desktop-search/thunderbird/

You might also be interested to know that they only claim to search OpenOffice.org documents (ODT, OTT, ODM, OTH, ODS, OTS, ODP, OTP) (versions: 1.1, 2.0, 3.x) Open office is at Version 4.x and libre office is at version 6, so I am not sure how well it indexes those files contents.

Matt ... you totally answered my question...INCLUDING unearthed the Page and explanation I never saw -- TBird $1.99 year, etc.

I have huge amounts of research data in all sorts of formats on my PC. I wanted a "universal search" app that would simultaneously comb indexed files, documents, images, emails, Favorite & Bookmarked URLs, etc. and Copernic seemed the answer. May still be...but now that I have benefit of your input, I can contact Copernic directly with much more intelligent questions!!!

Further, I had not seen (or at the time did not realized the importance of what I was reading) regarding OpenOffice and Copernic's searchable versions. OpenOffice SAVES AS using Microsoft extensions for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. I don't know how Copernic "sees" those docs -- as Microsoft of OpenOffice. Either way, annual extensions will be required.

THANK YOU.

Gracie350 said

OpenOffice SAVES AS using Microsoft extensions for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. I don't know how Copernic "sees" those docs -- as Microsoft of OpenOffice. Either way, annual extensions will be required.

If you are saving as Microsoft office then that is how Copernic will see the files. It has no idea what application actually created the file, it just understands what to do with certain file types.

You might want to look through the actual list of file types and the actions taken. You say you have research stored in all sorts of formats. Do they actually index the contents of the files? For instance I do not see matlab listed. There are usually some of those in any research project I have seen documented.

http://www.copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search/file-types/

Matt, it took me awhile, but I discontinued the copernic subscription (and they gave me no refund because it was past their 30-day guarantee period). I want to thank you for the amount and depth of information you researched on my behalf. I really came to you with a "blank screen understanding" of how copernic was set up -- as in, I knew nothing. You got to the guts of the matter. And once I understood that their product is much more complicated than my first-review, and it is absolutely useless unless, as their subscriber, I pay additional annual "licensing fees" for every mode of "data storage" I use (which are considerable)....it definitely is not for me. So, again, thank you for your considerable assistance.