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: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:32:50 +0100
At 11:18 AM -0800 1/24/06, Christopher Nebel wrote:
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.
I must admit that, though I'm using daily those smart features, I'm
still wondering what the round text box with the magnifying glass is
here for once I'm using the additional search criteria.
Emmanuel
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