what would be the best way for me to do a search for all pdf files on a person pc. and return or list those names ?
Searching all disk drives for files can be very resource intensive. It is recommended that the actual search piece be done as an action. The results can be echoed to a file and then retrieved with a simple retrieved property/analysis to parse the contents of that file.
This link describes one method using relevance in the action script.
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21505913
Or, the action script can also be modified to capture the output of
C:\dir /S *.pdf
to a file and in a similar fashion retrieve the results using a retrieved property/analysis
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As @zpt8mjs mentions, this is generally a bad idea.
It is slightly better if you limit the scope of the search to a few very particular folders.
What is the use case? What are you trying to achieve?
my company wants to find files on users pc with out knowing the location.