Is it possible to Find (Search) by "Name Contains" as Default in a Mac with OS X 10.8.3 (Mountain Lion)?
The current "File - Find" (Command F) shows the mostly useless "Kind is Any" by default.
Even better, is it possible to show by default these two options to fill the appropriate one in each case?
Name contains
Name begins with
Thanks!
Cmd-ctrl-F is Find by Name and it seems to find more of a name contains even though it still shows "matches" in the search window. It won't find substrings within strings, though.
I don't know of a way to change the default search criteria. It might be possible to alter the default search template, but I don't know how.
When you click Find (Finder/File/Find) then in "Kind" you click "Name" and in the search field next to it you click "contains", you can save this as a smart folder in the sidebar
Thanks. Yet, if I Command F and then create these search fields:
Name contains
Name begins with
and save the search window as Smart Folder (clicking the top right Save button), when I open such Smart Folder, the two chosen selections do not show (none of them shows).
Click on the Action button and select show Search Criteria. That'll reveal what you've set.
Thanks. I have noticed that for the Gear icon to show on the Finder windows, the "View - Show Toolbar" must be ON.
On the other hand, I can Drag & Drop the Search Smart Folder to any Finder Window Toolbar to SHOW on all Finder Windows and CLICK the GEAR FOLDER ICON TO ACTIVATE the SEARCH WINDOW. I can also PLACE an ALIAS of the Search Smart Folder in the DESKTOP.
Yet...
For convenience, I would like to activate such Smart Folder Search window clicking on its icon on the Dock, yet if I drag and drop the Search Smart Folder to the Dock, it does not open when I click it. Any way to do it?
ApMaX wrote:
For convenience, I would like to activate such Smart Folder Search window clicking on its icon on the Dock, yet if I drag and drop the Search Smart Folder to the Dock, it does not open when I click it. Any way to do it?
Just another stupid change that the engineers made in ML to further cripple Spotlight. I just put an alias just above the Dock and double-click it.
I do not know, but having at least one file in the smart folder is perhaps enough to anchor it in the Dock?
edit : "file" replace with "search result"
I've not found a way and filed a bug report, but no fix yet. Apparently, to difficult since all their attenitons on the iOS toys these days.
Yes....😁
Command-Control F will do it. I have no idea whether this is documented, but I'm glad I found it!
Interestingly, CMD+CNTRL+F does nothing on my machine.
I think it was a joke. Cmd-Ctl-F takes you to full screen
And back the second time.
Was not intended as a joke. It worked for me on Mountain Lion, but as you note Command-Control-F invokes full screen under Mavericks.
For now I am using the saved criteria method proposed by ApMaX. Thanks for the tip!
It is now cmd-ctrl-shift-F. Unfortuately, they overwrote the original with the shortcut for that idiotic Full Screen fiasco.
How to Find by Name Contains as Default in Mountain Lion?
