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Running an iMac 27, 2009, Sierra. I have some 15,000 midi files from 2000-2003, created from digitizing piano music rolls, scattered within 12 folders. Their file names range from 10 characters to 40 characters. Randomly within the file name is the original catalog number. The catalog number is what I seek.

All Find Files that I have tried all attempt to find "11-107", or catalog numbers similar. within the first few characters of the file name, never finds the file. FileFind utilities that look within a file for this character string don't find it because it is not embedded within the file.

I'm looking for a FileFind utility that will examine every file name looking for a specific character string somewhere within the variable length of a file name.

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2), null

Posted on Nov 14, 2017 2:45 PM

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PN2

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Posted on Nov 14, 2017 4:10 PM

EasyFind is nice for that, since it automatically highlights the search string in each filename shown in the results, which might be helpful in doing what you describe. FaF is very good too, although lacks the highlight, having other benefits. I'd get & keep both, use whichever suits the task in hand.

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