Just click the + button, and add entries for “Find” and “Find by Name…” (note the three periods – not an ellipsis – after the name) with the appropriate keyboard shortcuts. If you want Find by Name to be your default action, you can switch the keyboard shortcuts using the Keyboard Shortcuts view of the Keyboard preference pane. This command is available in both Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard. Hold down the Shift key, and choose File > Find by Name (Command-Shift-F). Second, if you usually want to search by file name instead of the file’s contents, you can make sure the Search bar at the top of the Finder window is set to File Name without requiring an additional click. This option first appeared in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. From then on, when you invoke the Finder’s Find command by choosing File > Find (Command-F), searches will be limited to the current folder showing in the frontmost Finder window. To do this, choose Finder > Preferences, click the Advanced button, and choose Search the Current Folder from the pop-up menu. There’s nothing new here, but lots of Mac users still aren’t aware of these options.įirst, if you usually know roughly where the files you’re looking for are located, you can restrict Spotlight to search the current Finder folder by default, instead of This Mac. But EasyFind is relatively slow, since it doesn’t index your hard disk, and Spotlight can be tweaked to work more the way many of us want, with a few simple settings. One frequently mentioned solution to the Spotlight problem is the freeware EasyFind from DEVONtechnologies, which Matt reviewed in “ EasyFind 4.0: It’s Easy, It Finds, It’s Free” (11 October 2007). I fall into that latter group – I know what my documents are called, for the most part, so if I’m looking for a document, I almost always search by file name (when I do search by “contents” – all file metadata, including textual content – I’m usually disappointed). For others, particularly those who want to search primarily by file name, Spotlight can be annoying to use.
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