[X4U] Re: Tiger - Trouble Using Find Command

[revDAVE]

On 5/30/2006 6:21 PM, "John Baltutis" <baltwo at san.rr.com> wrote:

> On 05/30/06, revDAVE <coolcat at hosting4days.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Using Tiger 10.3.9...
> 
> Conflicting information here. Can't be running both simutaneously.
> 

Yes sorry - using 10.4.6


>> 
>> 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.

Sounds great - thanks John!

> 
>> 
>> 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?

Just moved from Panther last week!

> 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.pli
> st>.


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