[X4U] Re: Tiger - Trouble Using Find Command

[John Baltutis]

On 05/30/06, revDAVE <coolcat at hosting4days.com> wrote:
>
> Using Tiger 10.3.9...

Conflicting information here. Can't be running both simutaneously.

>
> When I go to the desktop and click command - F and the find command opens
> -  a click on the "others" tab and choose the hard drive I want to search in
> -  and to get rid of all the other criteria and choose: name - contains &
> the keyword I am looking for... Then I hit return ...

There's a way to modify Finder's Find function to change the search criteria.
If you're interested, I'll send it to you off list.

>
> Very often it will not find something that I know is there... Just to prove
> this I will load the great program "easyfind 3.9" ...  And it finds what
> Apple could not find it in just a few seconds...

Known limitation-see below.

>
> Q:  Why is this happening... How can I fix this? Is it an Apple bug?

No. Just an incomplete implementation of the process. Where've you been?
There's been much traffic on this problem for over a year. To get a handle on
it, go to <http://www.macworld.com/search/index.php> and confine your search to
Features and May 05-May06 and give yourself a read.

> BTW:  spotlight does not have anything in the privacy area to block this...

No. But it also has excluded many areas for searching. See the hint at
<http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2005050222125145&query=rules.plist>.