• Open Menu Close Menu
  • Apple
  • Shopping Bag
  • Apple
  • Mac
  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • Watch
  • TV
  • Music
  • Support
  • Search apple.com
  • Shopping Bag

Lists

Open Menu Close Menu
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Lists hosted on this site
  • Email the Postmaster
  • Tips for posting to public mailing lists
Re: finding files by name (you know, the old-fashioned way...)
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: finding files by name (you know, the old-fashioned way...)


  • Subject: Re: finding files by name (you know, the old-fashioned way...)
  • From: Jason Davies <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 18:51:58 +0000

> Find "sort of" exists still on the top right of every Finder window - a text
> box with a magnifying glass icon. It finds by name offering a choice of
> where to search. Is this what you mean?

that's not what it does here. The old drop-down menu for that box that offered locations in 10.3.9 is gone and it returns files containing the word in the text as well as the name as far as I can see. Am I missing something obvious here? (eg I typed in 'dream' and got files called "0,6109,1661516,00.html" (amongst others).

I have hundreds, maybe thousands of text files on disk. Searching by contents would be an act of utter desperation and I could already do it with BBEdit (and get a better sense of the context from the results, which admittedly took longer). Add email to that number and I'm getting literally thousands of hits on some words that are only in the titles of maybe 20 files (I choose titles with care!).
 _______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
Applescript-users mailing list      (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:

This email sent to email@hidden

  • Follow-Ups:
    • Re: finding files by name (you know, the old-fashioned way...)
      • From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
    • Re: finding files by name (you know, the old-fashioned way...)
      • From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
    • Re: finding files by name (you know, the old-fashioned way...)
      • From: Mark Lively <email@hidden>
References: 
 >Re: finding files by name (you know, the old-fashioned way...) (From: Adam Bell <email@hidden>)

  • Prev by Date: Re: finding files by name (you know, the old-fashioned way...)
  • Next by Date: Re: finding files by name (you know, the old-fashioned way...)
  • Previous by thread: Re: finding files by name (you know, the old-fashioned way...)
  • Next by thread: Re: finding files by name (you know, the old-fashioned way...)
  • Index(es):
    • Date
    • Thread