Re: finding files by name (you know, the old-fashioned way...)
Re: finding files by name (you know, the old-fashioned way...)
- Subject: Re: finding files by name (you know, the old-fashioned way...)
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:18:59 -0800
On Jan 24, 2006, at 10:51 AM, Jason Davies wrote:
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).
It's all there, but you have to go through a couple of extra steps to
get it. First off, the locations moved a bar at the top that appears
when you type in a search string. (Mine reads "Servers Computer
Home [current folder] Others..." -- this mirrors a change in
Mail.) Click on one of them to change the search root. Second, if
you click the "+" button at the right end, you can add specific
search criteria, one of which is the file name. Change it to Name :
Contains, and there you are. If you find yourself searching for the
same thing often, you can save a specific search as a smart folder
using the "save" button.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript and Automator Engineering
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