Finder doesn't find everything

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Finder doesn't find everything

Hello,
I am working as a DJ and thought a MacBook Pro is the ultimate solution.
I have an External Harddrive with 1TB Music. Songs are organized in differend folders by Artists.
When I am searching one song I type a keyword in finder and let him search. Some songs the finder can find, some songs he can't.
So i made a test on a windows PC. Well windows searches about 30 seconds but find 10 different songs with the keyword i typed in the search field.
And my Mac find 0 Songs to this Keyword.

Why is this like that ?
Is there any plugin to find everything on it ?
I've tried the app pathfinder and easyfind but there is the same problem

And dear Apple....please let the Finder find everything in OSX Mavericks

I use a MacBook Pro Retina so my hardware can't be to old for this. and even a Windows XP can find all songs.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)

Posted on Jun 14, 2013 12:13 AM

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Answer 1

Jun 14, 2013 4:03 AM in response to Micha93

I've tried the app pathfinder and easyfind but there is the same problem

If EasyFind can't find what you're looking for you're entering the wrong search term. EasyFind finds everything. Literally.

Spotlight and Finder will also find everything, but you have to know your way around them. These articles might help:

Spotlight search attributes list:

http://d-bitblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/spotlight-search-by-file-attributes.html

Finder advanced search options:

http://www.resourcesforlife.com/docs/item6351

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Barney-15E

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Jun 14, 2013 4:07 AM in response to Micha93

Sounds like your hard drive is not indexed well.

Add it to the Privacy pane in Spotlight System Preferences, then remove it after a few seconds.

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Eric Root

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Jun 14, 2013 1:59 PM in response to Micha93

Information.

Spotlight – 5 things You Never Knew

Spotlight Adjustments

Spotlight Basics

Spotlight – Create Good Queries

Spotlight FAQ

Spotlight – Narrow Search Results

Spotlight won’t work

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Micha93 Author

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Jun 15, 2013 12:46 AM in response to Barney-15E

Thank you Barney,now Finder finds more but it's not all. I've take a look how many MP3 are on the External Harddrive.

Windows found about 200.000
Mac found 8500
And thanks to you and your Idea with privacy my Mac has found 14.820

I went to Disk Utility and when I click on my External Hard Drive this Application show up a text in the bottom left corner. I am not aktivated as owner of this external hard drive....... but why and how can I fix this ?

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Micha93 Author

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Jun 15, 2013 1:05 AM in response to Micha93

I solved my problem.

I've downloaded a NTFS Programm and now Finder finds everything.
The first scan of all MP3 data takes very long. Then I start the same search again and Finder find files faster.

But again thank you Barney-15E you've helped me a lot.

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Barney-15E

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Jun 15, 2013 5:43 AM in response to Micha93

I didn't realize it was an NTFS volume. Out of the box, OS X cannot write to NTFS, so can't create an index.

I'm still not sure it can create an index on an NTFS volume, but if you see a .Spotlight-V100 directory when you connect it to Windows, that's what it is.

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