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I don’t think it finds files faster than Spotlight, which someone else wrote, because you’re just never going to beat pre-indexed searches, but it’s very fast and at least I know when FAF is searching in realtime as opposed to an index, it’s finding everything at that point in time. I just found out I can set two volumes to be searched without searching any of the others by dragging their icons from the Finder to the “Find Items” section in the search box, then select File -> Save as Default Search, and now those two volumes can be selected independently of all the others. I usually have multiple volumes mounted and I’m impressed it’s as fast as it is. When I have to actually find something, I use FAF instead of the Finder.”įind Any File makes getting a specific file’s location much easier than the default OS X find. “I keep FAF as an icon in the toolbar of every Finder window. “I use it when I want to find a specific kind of file or to see and eliminate or compare the double and redundant files. Find Any File is in my arsenal of tools when things files or folders go astray.” “As the administrator for about 50 school Macs, I often need to look for some file misplaced by a novice or, while troubleshooting a system, I often need to search for obscure operating system files. “FAF goes where Spotlight's can't easily reach.” |
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