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Macs are terrible at file searching!
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<blockquote data-quote="hughvane" data-source="post: 1052350" data-attributes="member: 56231"><p>I'm grasping a bit here, because I'm on my iMac with Panther, whose Search function is a bit antiquated, but from memory of what Tiger does with its Cmd-F search, it might be that you need to define the search criteria more carefully.</p><p></p><p>For example, you should direct Finder to search for files whose name <strong>contains</strong> the search word, which covers everything from an initial word to any placement of that word in a file name (= song title).</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Your mention of the external hard drive makes me wonder if you're directing Finder to look on that drive. I know that in TigerOS, Finder does not automatically search anything other than the internal HD - unless it's told to.</p><p></p><p>I don't know about Indexing other than it forms part of the HFS+ (journaled) formatting of boot drives.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hughvane, post: 1052350, member: 56231"] I'm grasping a bit here, because I'm on my iMac with Panther, whose Search function is a bit antiquated, but from memory of what Tiger does with its Cmd-F search, it might be that you need to define the search criteria more carefully. For example, you should direct Finder to search for files whose name [B]contains[/B] the search word, which covers everything from an initial word to any placement of that word in a file name (= song title). Your mention of the external hard drive makes me wonder if you're directing Finder to look on that drive. I know that in TigerOS, Finder does not automatically search anything other than the internal HD - unless it's told to. I don't know about Indexing other than it forms part of the HFS+ (journaled) formatting of boot drives. [/QUOTE]
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