[X4U] Finder Question

[Jens Selvig]

Ed and all,

I don't understand why you would be using spotlight to find the folder  
a file is located in. (It has been a while since the beginning of this  
thread so I may be remembering the original problem incorrectly!)

Are we all assuming you are using OSX 10.5.x?

My recomendation is to use a 'finder window", enter one of the  
filenames in the search window. If there is a match, click on the file  
listed in the window and look at the bottom of the window. There you  
will see a path listing of where the file is located. If you click on  
the folder immediately to the left of the filename you will open that  
folder in a new finder window. (This I think is essentially one of the  
ways given by Linda and/or others earlier) If you have the tool bar  
turned off in finder windows, cmd-opt-T toggles it on and off.

Spotlight in my mind, anyway, is more useful for finding a document  
that contains some know text internally.

One of the problems with this discussion is finding the correct  
terminology to define actions and views. I find that the finder is  
full of duplicate meanings! ;)

Jens


On Nov 19, 2008, at 8:10 AM, Ed Gould wrote:

> I must be completely missing it then as I can not see it. I had a  
> friend tell me the same thing. So it must not be easily seen.  Spot  
> light is iffy when it comes time to displaying the path. Sometimes  
> it shows up in yellow but you have to move the cursor around and  
> then half the time it disappears before you can write it down.   
> Again it seems at best iffy way to do things. I thought that what  
> spotlight was for. I know it works (sometimes) but the yellow path  
> is almost a flip up (30-35 percent of the time it shows the path) .  
> I do NOT need to double click it just find the right folder so I can  
> then delete it. I will look at another product now.
> Thanks all for this less than helpful feature of OS X.
>
> Ed
>
> On Nov 18, 2008, at 7:07 PM, Daly Jessup wrote:
>
>>> I figured it out a little bit thanks. Shouldn't this be rather  
>>> easy to do without having to know the secret steps to get there. I  
>>> would have thought MAC OS  X would be simpler. After this I am  
>>> ready to call it the OS that has so many secrets that its not  
>>> worth running as you always have to ask to find out simple  
>>> questions OS.
>>>
>>> Ed
>>
>>
>> What secret? The path is right there at the bottom of every window.  
>> It is not and never has been any kind of secret. You just look at  
>> the bottom of the window.
>>
>> Daly
>>
>>
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