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HoudahSpot 1.2 (Mac OS X)

Best of the Spotlight alternatives  

Finally, my files seem to belong to me again - I can now find them all. I particularly like the detailed control it gives over searches: eg “find all files modified in the last 36 hours other than folders” or “find all files of type A, containing the word B, in folder C, modified before date D, other than those containing word E in the filename”. You can save complex searches and recall them with a keyboard shortcut. Its quite helpful to study the templates in the menubar (eg 'Long lost files'). It was only when I did this that I finally grasped how to set up a boolean "not" search. [alert admin]

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Thursday, June 15 2006 @ 02:55 PM PDT

FoxTrot Personal Search 1.0.2 (Mac OS X)

Does what Spotlight ought to have done  

Enormously superior to Spotlight. It allows you to search file content for phrases, to use and/or searching and to search by wildcard. You can change the search string in mid-search and it responds instantly,without Spotlight's long delays. Easily reveals any found result in its context. Much more efficient than Spotlight in narrowing down search results to highlight just the ones you want.

Where Spotlight has an advantage is in automatically indexing new files as you create them. With Foxtrot you either schedule the indexing to run at a set time or do it manually. Takes about 20 mins to run through 145,000 indexed files on my 933 iBook, which is not bad.

Absolutely first class product - I can't understand why this is tucked away here like some obscure bit of me-too shareware. [alert admin]

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Saturday, December 10 2005 @ 11:50 AM PST

Didn't Work On MacPro  

If you couldn't get it to work (and I can't either) why give it a five star rating?

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Friday, August 03 2007 @ 03:24 AM PDT