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: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:42:29 -0700
On Jan 24, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Jason Davies wrote:
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!).
I simply type command-F in the Finder, and change the Kind popup to
Name, and then enter the text I'm searching for.
--
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as
reading sex manuals without the software.
-- Clarke's sixth law
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