GOODBYE APPLE!! It's been a fun 15 years... - josephyli

I would try searching in Versiontracker the application EasyFind.

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Saturday, October 27 2007 @ 12:02 AM PDT

GOODBYE APPLE!! It's been a fun 15 years... - Edwin-schemer

Have you ever tried the "locate" command in a terminal?

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Saturday, October 27 2007 @ 12:03 AM PDT

GOODBYE APPLE!! It's been a fun 15 years... - Crazy Dave

If you even bothered to read my original email, I said that EasyFind doesn't work very well. It took 22 minutes to find my files versus 10 seconds for OS 10.3.9 Find File. EasyFind does not show a file's path in a separate window, it shoes everything in column view, making long paths buried deep in a file system very hard to locate. I have to manually click on EVERY SINGLE FILE and click 'Reveal in Finder.'

The Terminal's Locate command REQUIRES AN INDEX. The 'find' command works but it's very easy to mis-type a command and lose a file. I can't believe people are actually suggesting I use the Terminal to find files. This is 2007, not 1977. If I have to resort to using the Terminal whenever I find a file, I may as well just use Linux. Most of the software I use these days is open-source, I don't use iWork, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iChat etc etc for my job.

Don't even get me started on how Leopard's new 'feature' of being able to search network computers REQUIRES LEOPARD TO BE INSTALLED ON THE OTHER MAC. So searching OS 10.3, Windows or Linux servers for files is impossible.

I'm going to go and watch the movie 'Idiocracy' now. The future seems bleak.

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Saturday, October 27 2007 @ 01:24 AM PDT

GOODBYE APPLE!! It's been a fun 15 years... - tkzero

I'm sorry, but you really have no business installing a brand new OS on the first day, because you are entirely unprepared to put in any time with it, or any realistic expectations. eg: did you really think that installing 10.5 on one machine would allow you to search all your computers? You do not have a realistic concept of what this new system can/will do.

You yourself go on about "can't do my work". You had no business exposing your "work" to a bleeding-edge OS. What, your work is super-important that you must leave Apple because of some glitches on the day 1, but it WASN'T important enough to hold off for a day or two in the first place and see if there are any issues identified? What a weird concept. In the future, you need to decide how important your "work" is to you and what you are prepared to expose it to.

Obviously, given how important your "work" is, you made a full, restorable backup of both your system and your data? Well, should be only minutes to get back and running under your old OS. But you've done that already right?

There needs to be some kind of test taken at the Apple Store before they'll sell it to you. Might filter out some of those who need to be kept away for a few days...

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Saturday, October 27 2007 @ 05:39 AM PDT

GOODBYE APPLE!! It's been a fun 15 years... - julia2

While I doubt I will ever leave the Mac platform, I do agree that the Mac file search functions are not what they should be. While the concept of Spotlight is great and is occasionally just what the doctor ordered, many times a filename search is all that's wanted or needed. It is absolutely mind-boggling that we do not have it, and with boolean search criteria. Being able to trust search results is really important. As it is now, if Spotlight finds your stuff then great, but if it doesn't, you still have the sneaking feeling that it's there somewhere, not being found.

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Saturday, October 27 2007 @ 06:42 AM PDT

GOODBYE APPLE!! It's been a fun 15 years... - Crazy Dave

tkzero can you even READ?!? How old are you? Most people from age 10 or so can read quite competently. If you're 9 years old I can forgive your comments. I made it quite clear in my first post that I tried Leopard on an iMac at the AppleCentre. I never installed the thing on my own computer. Why would I buy an OS that is broken?

I also made it quite clear that OS 10.4 DIDN'T WORK EITHER. It isn't brand new!

And yes, I can't do my WORK because of a SINGLE, SMALL, LITTLE detail that just happens to make my work IMPOSSIBLE with 10.4 or 10.5. If somebody tried to sell you a car with no steering wheel that only drove in a straight line you wouldn't buy it, so why would I buy an OS that can't find anything on a hard disk or network volume?

I have a VERY realistic concept of what Leopard can and can't do - That's exactly why I'm writing in this discussion forum, because it CAN'T DO WHAT I NEED, and nobody seems to care enough to fix it. All I get is responses from people who can't read. And Apple deleted my discussions regarding Spotlight's inadequacies from their forums for reasons that can only be guessed at.

As per your comment: did you really think that installing 10.5 on one machine would allow you to search all your computers? Well I DID hope that 10.5 would allow me to search all my computers, especially considering i can already search all my computers with 10.3.9, and with Windows XP and with System 7.5 on my old 1992 LC475. Five years ago I ran a network of 27 Mac computers and 3 Windows computers. Every single one of them could search for files on every single other computer with File Sharing. It is now impossible with Leopard.

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Saturday, October 27 2007 @ 06:59 AM PDT