[X4U] Finder Question

[David Brostoff]

At 10:39 PM -0600 on 11/20/08, Ed Gould wrote:

>I started this question out with an explanation of what I had done 
>accidentally and (I thought) what I was trying to accomplish and 
>that was find the files I had inadvertently moved into a folder that 
>contains over 100+ folders. I needed to essentially find all the 
>files I had dragged and dropped accidentally into that folder. It 
>looks to me like when the drop happened the finder (or who ever is 
>doing the dropping) scattered the files into at least 50 different 
>folders. I was trying to find the files so I could move them into 
>the correct folder (I try to be organized). Instead of opening up 
>each of the 100 folders I was attempting to cut the number down to a 
>reasonable number. I know that 50 is less than 100 and in some cases 
>the folders contain 10K of files so not only did I have to wait 
>30-60 seconds for each folder to open I had to max down to the 
>bottom as the files all stated with "Z".
>
>This (to me was an exercise that was pure frustration) as opening  a 
>100 folders does take a bit of time and then going to the bottom was 
>just plain tedious. My intent was to minimize the tedious part. I 
>figured if at least I could find each folder I had to open I was at 
>least 50 percent there. I thought if I could just find the path for 
>each file I could identify the folder(s) and only open the ones I 
>needed.

Others can speak for Spotlight, but with File Buddy at least, no need 
to open folders (or even, as I suggested earlier, to go to the file 
in question by using Command + R).

Just search for files beginning with "z." In the resulting list, 
highlight the ones you want, then click on File>Move and choose the 
destination.

David