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: John Baltutis <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 20:00:53 -0800
On 01/24/06, Michelle Steiner <email@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
But that gives you every instance, in the search path, that contains that term.
If you want to search for a file's name, you need to select other->filename,
vice name to get file names with that term.
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