Just like the Spotlight and Finder search results windows, you can double-click any file in EasyFind’s search results to open it, or use drag-and-drop to work with it. (All Words and Case Insensitive are actually the defaults, so I had to make only two adjustments.) I typed Eddy into the search field and pressed return…and 4 seconds later I had a list of all matching documents. In my case-searching my Documents folder for a file with Eddy in its title-I clicked on Only Files, All Words, and Case Insensitive and then choose my Documents folder as the location to search. You can also manually choose a folder to search. Search location: all volumes all local volumes folders at the root level of your hard drive (Applications, Developer, Library, System, and so on) any folder in your Home directory any folder on your Desktop folders in ~/Library/Favorites or any folders you place in ~/Library/EasyFind.
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Tiger Tips series to “Revert to the previous Find window” in order to get a basic find-by-name version of Spotlight. Granted, I could have used one of Spotlight’s various tricks-for example, enclosing Eddy in quotes (it didn’t help much), using the Find feature in the Finder to search just by name, or using one of Apple’s special Spotlight parameters-to narrow down the search. So I had to spend even more time weeding through the results to find the desired file. When it was done, I had 31 results, some of which included “Eddy” in the contents of the file, some of which were email messages or iChat logs, a couple of which were music files-do I really have Eddy Grant’s “Electric Avenue” in my iTunes Library? Gotta love those 80s compilation CDs-and some of which were Safari bookmarks.
Eddy into Spotlight’s search field and pressed Return…and it took Spotlight well over a minute to finish its search.
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