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While trying to organizer my files, I did a search in Finder to find a duplicate. It found neither the duplicate nor the file in front of my eyes.
I read some earlier posts with similar problems, but nothing suggested resolves this.
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.14
Set Finder Preferences > Advanced >
and give this a read, Narrow your search results on Mac, from the macOS User Guide. This presumes that you have setup Spotlight to index your hard drive with specific search result categories. More info on Spotlight.
Set Finder Preferences > Advanced >
and give this a read, Narrow your search results on Mac, from the macOS User Guide. This presumes that you have setup Spotlight to index your hard drive with specific search result categories. More info on Spotlight.
Forget finder & Spotlight - they're both useless for what most people want in a standard search. I use an app called Find Any File - so much easier than Apples hopelessly convoluted 'solution'
Are you using Spotlight search? I find that's less likely to find what I want than using the Finder's cmd-F (or File/Find), and in the Finder search window that opens, select Name and Matches or Begins with, then enter your search
There is nothing in my Spotlight Privacy panel either, and what I was suggesting is that you temporarily drag your Macintosh HD drive icon into this panel, and then abruptly remove it. That triggers fresh Spotlight indexing. Of course, if you have not selected relevant Spotlight Search Results categories, they won't be indexed, and the Finder, which depends on Spotlight indexes, will not find what you seek. Just setting Finder Preferences to search for everything does not mean that Finder itself is doing the searching…
Neither Finder nor Spotlight find anything. Spotlight might find something on the web, but I’m looking for a specific file that I know is there. I would expect Finder to find such items, especially the one in front of me that I’m using as a test.
As I said, Finder relies on a properly configured and indexed Spotlight database to locate anything. Give this a try in either Spotlight, or a Finder window search field:
name:foo
where foo is the case-insensitive name, or substring in that filename. Spotlight relies on your using keywords as my previous link references point out.
There's nothing in the Spotlight Privacy Box to begin with.
I set Finder preferences to search for everything, and it finds nothing. I set it to search in "this file" and it finds nothing.
Ahh! Got it. I’ll give it a try and get back.
I'm curious as to why it used to find files for me, but no longer does?! No need to answer.
Thanks much!
+1 👍
Finder never finds anything
