Hi Mark,
You'll want to use PBCatalogSearch and friends. The PBCatalogSearch
routines rapidly traverse the catalog B-Tree looking for matches to your
criteria.
You may also want to take a look at the GrabBag sample which uses
PBCatalogSearchAsync.
http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/GrabBag/
It's an old sample, but the concepts still apply.
Deric Horn
Mac OS X Application Technologies Evangelist
Apple Worldwide Developer Relations
email@hidden
> How would I go about searching an entire volume for files with a given
> creator/filetype combination, or for files with a given extension?
> This needs to work on 10.2.0 or later, so I can't do anything fancy
> with Spotlight. The current code uses Search.c from MoreFiles, but
> MoreFilesX doesn't have a modern counterpart.
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