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#EASYFIND APP MAC OS X#
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(All Words and Case Insensitive are actually the defaults, so I had to make only two adjustments.) I typed In its title-I clicked on Only Files, All Words, and Case Insensitive and then choose my Documents folder as the location to search. In my case-searching my Documents folder for a file with

You can also manually choose a folder to search.

Search location: all volumes all local volumes folders at the root level of your hard drive (Applications, Developer, Library, System, and so on) any folder in your Home directory any folder on your Desktop folders in ~/Library/Favorites or any folders you place in ~/Library/EasyFind.

#EASYFIND APP MAC OS X#

Search options: case-sensitive or insensitive whether to treat Mac OS X packages as folders (in which case package contents are also searched) and whether or not to include invisible items in the search.

Of the search words (“or”), or the complete phrase or to search using wildcards or operators (more on the latter two choices below) The type of search to perform: items containing

What to search: both file and folder names, only file names, only folder names, or the contents of files.

When you launch EasyFind, you get a simple search field with a number of easy-to-understand options: But given that the most common type of search is likely to be one of filenames, Spotlight makes such a search neither quick nor easy (not to mention that users shouldn’t have to remember special codes or procedures in order to perform simple searches).

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Series to “Revert to the previous Find window” in order to get a basic find-by-name version of Spotlight. In quotes (it didn’t help much), using the Find feature in the Finder to search just by name, or using one of Apple’s special Spotlight parameters-to narrow down the search. Granted, I could have used one of Spotlight’s various tricks-for example, enclosing So I had to spend even more time weeding through the results to find the desired file. Of the file, some of which were email messages or iChat logs, a couple of which were music files-do I really have Eddy Grant’s “Electric Avenue” in my iTunes Library? Gotta love those 80s compilation CDs-and some of which were Safari bookmarks. When it was done, I had 31 results, some of which included “Eddy” in the Into Spotlight’s search field and pressed Return…and it took Spotlight well over a minute to finish its search.