[X4U] Searching for file name in Tiger

[Jim Hurley]

>>
>>Message: 10
>>Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:56:33 -0700
>>From: Eddie Hargreaves <meged at earthlink.net>
>>Subject: Re: [X4U] Searching for file name in Tiger
>>To: "A place to discuss Mac OS X for the casual user."
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>>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


P.S.

I just tried looking for "Internet Explorer" in Spotlight. It found a 
reference in my old Apple Menu (OS 9) but it did not find the new OS 
X version. I found it manually. Nor did it show up using Eddie's 
suggestion.