How do I search for a list of all AVI files on my Mac?

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How do I search for a list of all AVI files on my Mac?

I need to find all of the AVI files on my MacPro's 4 hard drives.

How do I generate a list of all of the AVI files on these drives, their locations/size etc.??

MacPro 2.66, Mac OS X (10.4.10), 6 GB ram.. iLife 08 /Aperture / CS3 / LightZone

Posted on Feb 14, 2009 6:13 PM

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BDAqua

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Feb 14, 2009 6:25 PM in response to hassiman

Hi Hassiman,

I'd get EasyFind...

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/8707

It's free, just type in .avi, search all volumes & wait. 🙂

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Limnos

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Feb 14, 2009 6:42 PM in response to BDAqua

Although I agree with BDaqua about EasyFind being great, in this case you can also just type .AVI into Spotlight's search window

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BDAqua

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Feb 14, 2009 7:09 PM in response to Limnos

On the only mac I have Spotlight still enabled on, for one drive with no changes in 6 months...

Spotlight .avi = 130

Easyfind .avi = 150

Never trust Spotlight, it may find them, or it may not find them.

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