OS X Finder Search Question

[Howard Bornstein]

I use EasyFind (although I'm sure there are others) [
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11076/easyfind].

It's slow, but it's thorough.

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 9:33 PM, Pete <pete at mollysrevenge.com> wrote:

> Hi Howard - what 3rd party tool do you use?
> Pete
> Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Howard Bornstein <bornstein at designeq.com
> >wrote:
>
> > I have never found the Spotlight search to be complete. When I absolutely
> > have to find a file, I use a third-party search tool because Spotlight is
> > so
> > unreliable.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Howard Bornstein
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> >
> > On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Pete <pete at mollysrevenge.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks Mark.  IS that the Privacy tab of the Spotlight Preferences?  If
> > so,
> > > I don ;t see anything there that would exclude that folder, unless
> > there's
> > > some global option somewhere that excludes all system files?
> > > Pete
> > > Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>
> > >
> > > On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Mark Schonewille <
> > > m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Pete,
> > > >
> > > > One reason could be that system files have been excluded from
> indexing
> > in
> > > > the Spotlight preferences.
> > > >
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> > > >
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> > > > On 26 sep 2011, at 00:39, Pete wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I'm using the search bar at the top of a Finder window to find all
> > > files
> > > > > with a given name.  The search is on "This Mac" and I just search
> > file
> > > > > names, not contents.  There's at least one file that deosn't show
> up
> > in
> > > > the
> > > > > results for some reason.  It is located in folder
> > ~/Library/Application
> > > > > Support/Test.  Files with the same name in other folders are found
> > OK.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any ideas why this should be?
> > > > >
> > > > > Pete
> > > > > Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>
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Howard Bornstein
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