[X4U] "Searching" question under 10.4

[Daly Jessup]

At 10:08 AM +0300 5/10/06, Lee Licata wrote:
>I went to my hard drive, System> Library> CFMSupport and picked the 
>file "CarbonLib" as an guinea pig.
>I then went to Spotlight to search that file.
>Nope, Nada, never found.
>Then, using the Find command, did the same.
>Same results.
>Then, as suggested by a previous poster, reconfigured a specific 
>Find routine where I manually entered both the System folder and the 
>Library folder as specific places to search.
>Re-performed the search.
>Nope, Nada, etc. etc.
>So, am I doing something wrong? Is there another way to search? Or, 
>did Apple just make searching/finding such files not possible?

Not sure. I have used "Others" in the Find window to choose my 
System folder, and if I search in the Find window, if does find 
CFMSupport. On the other hand, I then chose a preference file deeper 
in the System folder, and the first time I looked for it the Find 
window found it. So I tried again to be sure, and it would never find 
that pref file again!

On the other hand, I then chose "Other" in the dropdown list of 
search criteria and chose "FileName" and added it to my Favorites. I 
then searched in the special location that included my System folder, 
and it found preference files for me. It's not as fast as the regular 
criteria, however.

How exactly did you do your search and set up the search location?

Daly
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