
If you want to change the order of those columns, or if you want to sort your results by any of those columns, you can do that too.ĮasyFind can search for the content of files, but it is not using Spotlight's database, it is actually running the search when you enter it. If you don't want any of those columns, you can turn them off. Of course you get the filename (and you can expand that column to make it wider, I just made it narrow in the screenshot above), but you also get the creation date, the modification date, the size, the kind and location. That's far more control and options than what Spotlight gives you (or at least what Spotlight gives you without resorting to byzantine keywords), but what I really love is what you get in the results of your search. Spotlight only lets you choose "current folder" or "everything" which is almost never what I want. 99% of my searches are for things I know are "somewhere" in my Home, or "somewhere" in my Dropbox. You can also set the scope of the search to be a specific volume/disk, or a specific folder such as your Home folder.

You can also specify whether or not the search should be case sensitive, whether it should look in package contents, or include invisible files and folders. Next choose to search for All Words, Any Word, a Phrase, or Unix-Wildcards. Not now Turn on Turned on Turn onĭown the left-hand side of the window are criteria for searching: Files and Folders, Only Files, Only Folders, or File Contents.


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