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DESCRIPTION
EasyFind is an alternative to or supplement of Spotlight and finds files, folders or contents in any file without the need for indexing. This is especially useful if you are tired of slow or impossible indexing, outdated or corrupted indices or if you are just looking for features missing in the Finder or Spotlight.
Highlights:
- Boolean operators, wildcards, phrases
- No indexing, search immediately
- Finds invisible files and files inside packages (which Spotlight doesn't search)
- Displays the location of each file in a separate column
- Provides contextual menus and services
- Supports drag-and-drop
- Very responsive due to multithreading
- Uses little memory
WHAT'S NEW
Version 4.0.1:
- NEW: Italian localization.
- Improved: Optimized for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard.
- Improved: Faster lauching of the application.
- Improved: Handling of tooltips.
- Fixed: English localization.
- Removed: Support for Mac OS X 10.3.9 Panther.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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| EasyFind User Reviews (61 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Jun 15 2009 |
MRFANCYPANTZ I mainly search for image files on my computer, it would be great if instead of a list view, I could see my search results as thumbnails.
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 | May 25 2009 |
GARY30 If you need to search for files in locations other than your own User folder, want to find contents within packages or want to find things on drives that you've excluded from Spotlight indexing EasyFind is fantastic. Fast and, well, easy!
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| Dec 22 2008 |
SPARTAN EasyFind is a great tool to manage your system. Spotlight is such a pain to find system files...
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| Oct 14 2008 |
MOPPERMAN This is a good program if you only want to search your local machine, perhaps, and I love the interface - I wish Apple would return an interface like this to Spotlight. But try to search a Mac OS X 10.5 Server share that has hundreds of thousands of work files on it with this app, and it becomes useless... 3 - 4 minutes to complete a search over a gigabit network. Spotlight may be a pain because you can't configure it very well, but it is fast (nearly instantaneous), especially with 10.5 Server Spotlight indexing. Personally I have no issues with Spotlight indexing, but this application does not act like it really uses an index if it's there.
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| Jun 18 2009 |
RUFTY TUFTY EasyFind does NOT use an index. That's clearly stated in the first sentence of the description. The reason it's so useful (when Spotlight isn't) is that Spotlight only indexes part of your system, and doesn't find anything in the areas that aren't indexed. And, indexing >everything< would take a long time, and take a lot of space for the index. The genius of EasyFind is that it is fairly fast, considering that it doesn't use an index. I use it a few times a month to find system files, etc., and a couple of minutes or so is no big deal (I do something else while I'm waiting). 3 or 4 minutes to search an entire server over the network is actually pretty impressive. While it's not as fast as you might like, you might want to ask - what's the alternative? The only way to do it faster is to build an index, with all the overhead that entails.
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| Apr 20 2008 |
SILIZIUM Since Finder Search becoming crap and finds nearly nothing anymore, EasyFind became important for me.
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| Mar 19 2008 |
DANA SUTTON This Devon giveaway is a terrific application (now all I need is to figure out how to disable Spotlight). Only one suggestion for improvement: it would be great to have a menu icon so the user wouldn't have to dig around to launch EasyFind (but if you are using Devon's equally great XMenu that's not so much of a problem).
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| Mar 31 2008 |
K0GG I don't know if your question was just light hearted or 'truth in jest' but if you add a hard drive to the Privacy list (System Preferences/Spotlight/Privacy) Spotlight will stop searching it. Whether this actually disables Spotlight, I don't know.
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 | Apr 3 2008 |
JOSEPH SQUIRE To disable Spotlight indexing on the main volume, do "sudo mdutil -i off /" in Terminal. To disable Spotlight on other volumes, do "sudo mdutil -i off ". You'll obviously need root access to do this. There are probably GUI tools to do the same thing, but I did it on my system from Terminal. You'll probably want to get rid of everything in the "Privacy" tab of the Spotlight system preference so you can at least search files by filename in the Finder. I've done all this and I'm happier with Spotlight disabled like this.
(Version 4.0.1) | |
| Mar 10 2008 |
MUBARIK EasyFind is a very good app. You can find anything in your machine even you can manage and localize what do you want to find. Thanks to the developer.
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| Dec 21 2007 |
DRDUL A follow-up to my earlier post... I heard back from the developer, who explained that the file type drawer is only used for searches of file contents (the fourth option under "Search for"). For the other three types of searches, it has no effect. The way to restrict the other searches to specific file types is to include the file extension in the search. For example, to find a Word a document with "foo" in the name, enter "foo doc" in the search box. To find a PDF with "foo" in the name, enter "foo pdf." The downside of this approach is that you can only search for one file type at a time — it doesn't work to enter "foo doc pdf" in an effort to search for Word files and PDFs.
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| Dec 16 2007 |
DRDUL I want to like EasyFind, but one thing is driving me nuts. I can't figure out how to limit the search to specific file types. I pop open the drawer on the left side and uncheck "Scan all files." I then check the box next to the first line, where I've typed several file extensions: "txt, rtf, rtfd, text" for example. The idea is to limit the search to text files. When I click the Find button, however, EasyFind finds files of all types, not just the types I specified. Without the ability to limit the search to specific file types, this promising app isn't that useful to me. There's no built-in help, so maybe I'm missing something obvious.
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| Oct 15 2007 |
NICO235 I love this app too, spotlight is disabled and this is all I'm using. I can't live without it. So, just saw the new 4.0 version pop up and was rejoicing. Alas, there are a few things that need polish. My biggest gripe is with the columns. Why are they not all resizable? Especially the date ones, which are also ugly since the date inside is not justified. Also, I would like the resizing to work like in the finder, with short dates or day of the week when space permit, thank you very much. :) In the meantime, please let us hide them, a command-J kind of thing would be nice, and yes, I have noticed that I can always drag them at the far right of the window and resize the window to hide them, but frankly, this is lame. Also, the 'kind' column is way too wide, it doesn't need to display more than 4 letters and some comma. Make it resizable too. Would it be possible to display the size in MB, GB also please? Showing everything in kb is sooo 1990 :) I'm not so sure I like having the 'search for' and stuff thing on the left instead of on the top, but I might just get used to it. Anyway, awesome app, and thanks for giving it for free.
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