Better FIND! - Dester Wallaboo

What.... isn't Spotlight user-friendly enough?... it is certainly magnitudes faster than Command-F ever dreamed of being. Also.. you can access Spotlight by doing a simple Command-Space.... or, if you are personally in love with Command-F... go change it in your System Prefs... but Apple changed it to Command-Space to keep Spotlight conflicting with other Find commands in other programs.

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Tuesday, April 04 2006 @ 07:46 AM PDT

Better FIND! - DavidRavenMoon

Command-F still brings up a Find window, only it's a Spotlight powered search window.

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Tuesday, April 04 2006 @ 08:44 AM PDT

Better FIND! - pseudonym

Or search for "EasyFind"

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Tuesday, April 04 2006 @ 08:53 AM PDT

Better FIND! - Gennx30

I agree, Spotlight is such a waste of space-and other idiotic bell and whistle to gum up the system. Panthers find was perfect;
C'mon-tell the truth-how many of you use 'Metadata' let alone know what it is-or even care?
And you got along just fine without it before-right?
Since that is gone, I now use EASYFIND.
Oh, yeah-and SPOTLESS to disable spotlight.

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Tuesday, April 04 2006 @ 10:52 AM PDT

Better FIND! - DavidRavenMoon

I use Spotlight all the time. Just a few minutes ago I used it to search through my Entourage email for one word.

Works like a charm!

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Tuesday, April 04 2006 @ 01:58 PM PDT

Better FIND! - deasys

- Cmd-f
- Pull down any one of the criteria and go to Other...
- select Filename and check Add to Favorites

Now you can use comd-f to search by filename any time you want.

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Tuesday, April 04 2006 @ 11:46 PM PDT

Better FIND! - softeky

yes but...
If you select a folder as not indexable you can't even find filenames in that part of the hierarchy. I set areas not indexable to save time when areas of the filestore are changing rapidly. I still want to know what files are in there (by name, not content) :-(.

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Wednesday, April 05 2006 @ 04:08 AM PDT

PLEASE bring back FIND!! - MatrixPT

Agreed - Spotlight is USELESS for most people. It slows the computer down, can't find files you know are there, can't index files I use every day for various reasons and can cause big problems if disabled. It can't index a movie or a piece of music or a photograph or a scanned image, a website or a piece of programming code, so I have no use for it. People keep raving about how wonderful it is because they keep finding documents they forgot they even had. I rarely use my computer for word processing and I certainly don't lose files all the time necessitating a search program to fix my forgetfulness. I don't want to index every single hard drive, CD, flash drive, memory card, photo storage device and network drive I plug into my computer just so I can search for a document I lost three years ago with the word 'elephant' in it.

10.3 had a find box in EVERY Finder window, so how can you say that having to hit Apple-Space is easier?!? It isn't. Typing your search directly into the Search box and hitting return is easier and FASTER. Plus it WORKS. Spotlight sometimes can't even find files I can see in front of me!

Bring back Apple-(F)ind, provide a System Preference so I can disable Spotlight COMPLETELY and I'll consider upgrading to 10.4. BTW if I wanted to use Dashboard I would have been using one of the third-party dashboard utilities that have been around for years, but I don't.

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Friday, May 26 2006 @ 01:47 AM PDT