[X4U] Searching for file name in Tiger

[Vince Lewis]

On Aug 16, 2005, at 7:04 AM, Jim Hurley wrote:

>>
>> After typing Command-F in the Finder, select the Kind pop-up and  
>> change it
>> to Name. You can then choose Contains, Begins With, Ends With, or  
>> Is. Once
>> you start typing in the box, it will start giving results. And if  
>> your word
>> is more than a few characters long, you'll probably get the spinning
>> beachball halfway through typing...
>>
>> AFAIK, this is the only way to do a name search in Tiger (aside  
>> from using
>> locate in the Terminal) and you will have to change the Kind field  
>> to Name
>> every single time.
>>
>
> Thanks to all for their response my quest for a pre-Tiger file  
> search method.
>
> Thanks especially to Eddie--above. That solves my problem; not  
> quite as easy as pre-Tiger, but it will do the job.
>
> I am mentality stuck back in OS 9 so I  always keep a couple of  
> finder widows open on the desktop for ready  access to folders. To  
> preserve these and do a file-find, it is necessary to first create  
> a new Finder window and then do as Eddie suggests. So the routine  
> becomes command-N, command-F, and change the Kind to Name. Room for  
> a third-party app here?
>
> Jim


For those who don't grok Spotlight, there's always EasyFind--it free  
and works fine in 10.4.
<http://tinyurl.com/77byo>

As for having to create a new Finder window, it's not necessary. Just  
type the search term in any Finder search box and when you've found  
what you want, delete the search term and your original window is back.
ciao,
Vince

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