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NameFind is a tool that provides fast, simple file-searching capabilities on Mac OS X. It does exactly what its name says: find files by name. Enter a search term, specify your search directory, and run the search query. NameFind will present a list of all files that match the search name.
NameFind is designed to be an alternative to the Mac's built-in Spotlight search technology. It uses a different file search algorithm to find files, either on your entire hard drive or in a specific directory. Spotlight is powerful, but it is slow and complex, and does not even search all
NameFind is designed to be an alternative to the Mac's built-in Spotlight search technology. It uses a different file search algorithm to find files, either on your entire hard drive or in a specific directory. Spotlight is powerful, but it is slow and complex, and does not even search all
What's New
Version 5.1.0:
- Improved UI appearance includes native Cocoa toolbar.
- Faster search of individual directories. Improved integration with QuickLook.
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.6 or later
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NameFind is a tool that provides fast, simple file-searching capabilities on Mac OS X. It does exactly what its name says: find files by name. Enter a search term, specify your search directory, and run the search query. NameFind will present a list of all files that match the search name.
NameFind is designed to be an alternative to the Mac's built-in Spotlight search technology. It uses a different file search algorithm to find files, either on your entire hard drive or in a specific directory. Spotlight is powerful, but it is slow and complex, and does not even search all directories on your system by default. If all you want to do is find a file by its name, Spotlight is not the best alternative. NameFind provides a faster and easier solution for this need.
NameFind is designed to be an alternative to the Mac's built-in Spotlight search technology. It uses a different file search algorithm to find files, either on your entire hard drive or in a specific directory. Spotlight is powerful, but it is slow and complex, and does not even search all directories on your system by default. If all you want to do is find a file by its name, Spotlight is not the best alternative. NameFind provides a faster and easier solution for this need.
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Tried all the TS on developer's site.
No go.
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Still searching after 5 mins, will have to force quit.
Find Any File searched my whole hard drive for “mpeg” and took 12 secs to locate 500+ items.
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Psychos reviewed on 16 Mar 2010
Basically, all this does is the same as if you opened Terminal.app, and ran "find / -name ''". The output does look a bit nicer, but there are SEVERAL utilities that do the same and more. All this program does is run 'find' and give you a few extra options to print/view in Finder/get info/etc. Basically, another 5 minute wrapper around the FREE included software with OS X.
...oh, did I mention Spotlight? You might be familiar with it. It finds files by name too! And it (WOW!) comes with OS X for free.
I am tempted to go into the motives and character of the developer, but I will not out of general respect for other folks.
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I know what spotlight is, and it is useless for developers, system programmers, power-users, and those trying to clean up anything involving system information. If it wasn't, there wouldn't be over 30,000 bitches to Apple about it, and file find utilities wouldn't be in demand. Still waiting for a functional 10.3 Find replacement.
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This developer should be banned from posting "apps" on MacUpdate. He'll perhaps scam a few people into paying for his "tools."
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- slow (displays search results only after complete search has finished)
- ugly (which developers roll their own toolbar implementation these days? Certainly not Mac-like)
- missing hotkey support (space bar should be QuickLook)
Check out Devon's "EasyFind" for a faster, better and free solution.
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Any help?
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Really want to try this utility.