Is there a way to use wild cards in Mavericks spotlight search?
MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), i7, 4GB RAM, SSD
Couple of suggestions above.
One, the EasyFind
http://www.devontechnologies.com/products/freeware.html
is good, but not as fast as Spotlight. Just different. And free.
There is also
http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/
Find Any File.
okay, thanks, nothing came up when I searched for wild card (or wildcard) here before posting.
what I would like is the following:
If I have a file named schmunzelmonster, spotlight will find it when I search for schmunzel, but not for monster. If I name it schmunzelMonster it will find it by monster, if I name it schmunzelmOnster it will find it by onster but not monster. Makes sense, but sometimes it would be nice to turn that word-guessing off and have it find everything. I guess there is no Finder way to do this quickly.
I got the "name contains" trick, but it's a lot of clicking. EasyFind and FindAnyFile will do it but they are a bit slow.
You can search via the Finder, couldn't you?
E.g.
yes, just wanting to not click through two popups. is there a short for name contains, as there is a name:onster ? (will go home now, will answer tomorrow)
EasyFind supports wild card and boolean
See the free product here:
okay, so no finder. thanks!
wild cards in spotlight search?
