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DESCRIPTION
Find Any File searches your local disks for files by name, creation or modification date, size, or type and creator code (not by content, though).
As there are other tools with a similar search operation, here are the special features unique to Find Any File:
- Has a new hierarchical view of the found items, making it much easier to browse 100s of items (see the screenshot).
- Can run as root user, finding really any file on your disk, even those that are hidden from normal users.
- Can save queries and run them again later.
- Is quite fast: About 10 times faster than EasyFind 4.0.1 when searching for a file name (Mac Pro with 2 million files, searching "httpd.conf": EasyFind: 150s, this app: 15s)
Unlike Spotlight (i.e. the Finder's Find command), it does not access a pre-built database but searches the chosen volume directly. This allows you to find any file, even those inside packages and others excluded from Spotlight search. Hence it is great for finding system files, for example.
On the other hand, it may take a little longer than Spotlight, and it is only fast on HFS(+) volumes. But even on mounted network volumes of a Mac OS X server it can still be surprisingly fast.
Hence, this is not an entire replacement for Spotlight but it can come handy in certain, if not many, situations.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.4.2:
- Remembers position and size of Results windows again.
- Works again on systems with multiple accounts.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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| Find Any File User Reviews (35 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Jan 4 2010 |
WAJISIN This is superb. It does what is required better than anything that the system offers. Thank you.
(Version 1.4.2) | |
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 | Dec 26 2009 |
DON1225 Fantastic!!! I use FindAnyFile so much that it is now indispensable! Great job! I highly and strongly recommend FindAnyFile to everyone!
(Version 1.4) | |
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| Dec 22 2009 |
Tired of spotlight's limited searching without having to tweak it (used to use Google Desktop but that got annoying) Loved OS9's finder find capabilities, but Apple seems to think we want less from our OS like windows versions. I want an OS that's one OS not ME, or HOME, or Premium. Just one and it has NO limitations unless you want them but you tweak them with the system pref panel like the Parent Controls. Anyway. when I want to search for something I want to find ALL instances of that something where ever they may be.
(Version 1.3.1) | |
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| Jan 4 2010 |
APPLE CODER Updated and still awesome!!!! Posted it on Facebook!
(Version 1.4.2) | |
 | Dec 8 2009 |
TEMPEL I have made a beta version with a new feature to search for "changed or created within X minutes/hours/days". I need a few testers to make sure I didn't break anything. If you like to try it, please download 1.4b1 from here and then contact me about your experience: https://files.tempel.org.s3.amazonaws.com/FindAnyFile_1.4b1.zip (note to MacUpdate staff: Do _not_ post this as a new version - betas are not meant for this!)
(Version 1.3.1) | |
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| Dec 4 2009 |
JAZZYGUY Great Tool! Thanks so much for this wonderful freeware!
(Version 1.3.1) | |
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| Dec 4 2009 |
PAT320 This tool is simply amazing. Thanks very much for this freeware.
(Version 1.3.1) | |
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| Dec 1 2009 |
THUS.SPAKE.Z Find Any File, as well as EasyFind, are extraordinarily good at what they're designed to do. I use both, and find them superb. While both are free(blessings upon their developers), I'd have no problem with putting out a few shekels for them. Neither have failed me yet.
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| Aug 29 2009 |
MAC66GRAPHICS Much easier to use than Houdah Spot[which is pricey] and the price here is right FREE. I use Find Any File FIRST and it has ALWAYS delivered and saved me time. Dare I say, I'd be willing to pay for the next update. Keep up the good work. YOU are much appreciated. and easy 5 out of 5 stars,
(Version 1.2.1) | |
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| Dec 1 2009 |
AGGO Shhhh don't encourage him.
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| Dec 1 2009 |
I've thought about making a paid 2.0 version which offers all the features people have requested in the past months (choosing individual volumes for search, more data columns such as creation date, more search criteria, "exclude" filter and more). All these are features I do not need (currently, I mostly implemented features I needed myself, and just made them available to everyone). If I should make this paid 2.0 version, the free 1.0 will remain available, though. We'll see...
(Version 1.3) | |
| Jul 14 2009 |
RONL Just found this and one of the features that I really am glad to see is the hierarchical results with the items searched for in bold. I used UltraFind for many years (years ago) with the Classic Mac OS and loved it. Hopefully this will be somewhat like it (again... I just started using it...)
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| Jul 8 2009 |
XENOPHILE I've tried all the search utilities I can find, and FAF is without question the best of its kind. By separating the search and results into different windows, FAF permits one to easily tweak search operators and compare results. The search window alone is wonderfully Mac-like and makes the addition of new search operators and fields effortless. But where FAF shines is its results window, which displays hits in either the familiar list format, or in a novel hierarchical file system view. What makes the file system view so wickedly powerful is that when a user searches for a file, he usually has some idea of where it is, or at least where it is not, so it's easy to drill into the file hierarchy and look at search hits only in relevant places. Very, very cool. It's a shame FAF is getting fewer downloads than some competitors like Devon's EasyFind, because FAF kicks Devon's runt app into next week. I give FAF 7 out of 5 stars - one extra for being free (many thanks to the developer), and one extra for being insanely good. separating
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