Apple equivalent of Copernic

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Apple equivalent of Copernic

Mac is my natural environment but I have to venture into the PC world some of the time – pretty well the only thing there which is better than in the Mac world is Copernic, which will find pretty well anything in a trice, file, word within a doc, photo, etc

I have only recently moved form OS 9.4 to find the search facilities not even as in OS 9 and a million miles away from Copernic

What have I missed?

Francis Hookham

G3 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Posted on Feb 4, 2006 4:06 AM

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Feb 4, 2006 4:53 AM in response to Francis Hookham

There used to be a Mac OS9 version of Copernic. Then Apple tried to copy it with something called "Sherlock". Sherlock was then abandoned. Now, in Tiger, we have Spotlight, but I predict that this, too, will eventually be abandoned as it is cumbersome and unreliable. Find File, in Panther, remains the simplest, most reliable way of finding anything anywhere, but it doesn't seach inside compressed archives and it can't search within file content.

Over the years there have been various Mac applications that could do that, and currently the best one (and it's freeware) seems to be EasyFind, which many Tiger users have adopted instead of Spotlight.

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