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<blockquote data-quote="ukchucktown" data-source="post: 1052348" data-attributes="member: 129039">A lot of users will tell you to use Spotlight or Finder. Spotlight is powerful but it takes quite a bit of time to learn its nuances and configure. The default Spotlight search stinks in my opinion. It's pretty useless.When I'm really looking for files I generally resort to using the find command in a terminal. The find command comes from Mac's BSD roots. You can learn about it by opening a terminal and typing &quot;man find&quot; to view the manual page. It's powerful but can be slow. Most searches are slow if they don't rely on a database or meta data like Spotlight. That's why Spotlight doesn't return results on a lot of files, no meta data.If you take the time to learn find and regular expression syntax you can root out just about anything on a Mac. If you prefer to stay GUI your best bet is a third-party utility to make your life easier.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ukchucktown, post: 1052348, member: 129039"] A lot of users will tell you to use Spotlight or Finder. Spotlight is powerful but it takes quite a bit of time to learn its nuances and configure. The default Spotlight search stinks in my opinion. It's pretty useless. When I'm really looking for files I generally resort to using the find command in a terminal. The find command comes from Mac's BSD roots. You can learn about it by opening a terminal and typing "man find" to view the manual page. It's powerful but can be slow. Most searches are slow if they don't rely on a database or meta data like Spotlight. That's why Spotlight doesn't return results on a lot of files, no meta data. If you take the time to learn find and regular expression syntax you can root out just about anything on a Mac. If you prefer to stay GUI your best bet is a third-party utility to make your life easier. [/QUOTE]

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