terrible awful crap pathetic search in osx finder since 10.4... WHY???
i have been using mac os since system 6, and the finder was always flawless when it came to doing a file search, and it was fast too! even way back then. there was even a time when there was multiple ways to find files (sherlock, and cmd+f). mac os finder's "find file" continued to be good (search bar in the finder window) until the release of 10.4, then it all went to ****... big time!
i don't want to elaborate on it too much, but the finders ability to find a file is now soo bad, that there have been times when it can't find a file even in the folder the window has open. i have shown this to friends and it's really pretty ridiculously pathetic. there is nothing wrong with my mac; i own several, and they all 5uck at file searching. i repair permissions and keep my machine well organized and maintained.
just now i did a search for america on my mac. did both contents and file name, i got search results, but not a track which i know i have in my itunes folder (kids in america by kim wilde). i then searched both ways IN MY MUSIC FOLDER- still nothing. then in the itunes folder... STILL NOTHING! finally, when i go into the "itunes" music" folder, then, THEN it finds the file... ***??? what's the point of the finder's finder if i already know what folder it's in? like i mentioned earlier, there have been times it hasn't been able to find a file in the current window! i can replicate that failed search. i can be in my documents folder, and have 23 files which contain the name godzilla for instance, and it will find some of them, but not all. this has happened in folders where there were nothing but files containing the same name, e.g. file-1.jpg, file-2.jpg, etc. and it would fail to see them all. how could mac finder have gone so disastrously backwards? worse than backwards even, since i've never before had a problem finding files until the spotlight search in finder was introduced.
this has been driving me nuts for years now, but it's gotten on my nerves so bad now i just had to post about it and see if there's a fix other than running a 3rd party app for actually finding files on my mac. that would be so stupid. would a finder replacement like pathfinder give me back my good old "find" functionality?
thanks for reading and for any helpful advice.
ss
ps- apple, please bring back windowshade too... please!
Message was edited by: teklife
i don't want to elaborate on it too much, but the finders ability to find a file is now soo bad, that there have been times when it can't find a file even in the folder the window has open. i have shown this to friends and it's really pretty ridiculously pathetic. there is nothing wrong with my mac; i own several, and they all 5uck at file searching. i repair permissions and keep my machine well organized and maintained.
just now i did a search for america on my mac. did both contents and file name, i got search results, but not a track which i know i have in my itunes folder (kids in america by kim wilde). i then searched both ways IN MY MUSIC FOLDER- still nothing. then in the itunes folder... STILL NOTHING! finally, when i go into the "itunes" music" folder, then, THEN it finds the file... ***??? what's the point of the finder's finder if i already know what folder it's in? like i mentioned earlier, there have been times it hasn't been able to find a file in the current window! i can replicate that failed search. i can be in my documents folder, and have 23 files which contain the name godzilla for instance, and it will find some of them, but not all. this has happened in folders where there were nothing but files containing the same name, e.g. file-1.jpg, file-2.jpg, etc. and it would fail to see them all. how could mac finder have gone so disastrously backwards? worse than backwards even, since i've never before had a problem finding files until the spotlight search in finder was introduced.
this has been driving me nuts for years now, but it's gotten on my nerves so bad now i just had to post about it and see if there's a fix other than running a 3rd party app for actually finding files on my mac. that would be so stupid. would a finder replacement like pathfinder give me back my good old "find" functionality?
thanks for reading and for any helpful advice.
ss
ps- apple, please bring back windowshade too... please!
Message was edited by: teklife
4 macs, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
