The absolute best & most used application on my Mac, year after year! DEVONtechnologies has made (and updated) this gem for many years, and I'll never live long enough to tell them about all "The Thank You's" I own them!
MacUpdate's description is not updated when it currently says that version 5 dates from "18 July 2014". What downloads is version 5 dated 3 March 2020. This should be corrected so not to scare away people who (like me) will not download apps that haven't been updated for several years. Read more here:
https://www.devontechnologies.com/apps/freeware
I've used easyfind for years... It's maybe a bit slow, but it's the easiest app that finds everything. No spot on your hard drive remains unsearched. System folders, libraries, invisibles, content... Finds it if it exists. No worries, no doubts. It's free, but if they charged for it, I'd pay whatever they asked.
The same search of an APFS volume that takes EasyFind 135 seconds takes Find Any File about 5 (five) seconds, but don't hold your breath for an update any time soon, because "Full AFPS compatibility will come in an update but I can’t say when. We are in the middle of several very high-priority projects right now", and while that sounds promising, it's the same response I got when I emailed Devon about a bug around three years ago, and there's yet to be an update.
What I'm wondering is how Easyfind compares to Find Any File on a NON-APFS volume...faster, as fast, or similarly slower?
I've loved EasyFind for years and would love to give it 5 stars, but the lack of support for an app that is badly in need of support costs it big-time.
Outstanding search tool. It is excellent and super easy to use to search your entire hard drive. I use it often when deleting any application to find the often many support files that are NOT deleted by simply trashing the app. Many of these app support files are not even deleted when you use the developer's delete utility.
I really like this program, but unlike FileLocator Pro for Windows, it doesn't do RegEx searches within files that I can find. Wildcards, sure, but not real REgEx.
FileLocator Pro on Windows is the only program that for the mac there simply isn't anything like it, functionally speaking.
I can't find a single search program that can search binary files, give me context of every found instance (in another pane) and not "rely" on the Spotlight index as so many of the mac search tools do.
EasyFind comes very close and it's free. I would gladly PAY MORE for just a bit more functionality here.
https://www.mythicsoft.com/filelocatorpro
(Note that FileLocator Pro also has a very capable free product called "Agent Ransack". Nothing like this on the Mac, either)
After scouring the internet and running dozens of searches for software that can check contents of elm files on a mac. This is IT. All others I've downloaded and paid good money for are no better than the native spotlight. This is better than Spotlight.
Perfect complement for Appcleaner (or the likes) ; if you know what you're doing -I hope I do- you can totally delete bits and pieces that remain after an app has been removed.
Great software!
This morning, I had to do some serious backup and discovered that I had a ton of duplicate files, scattered across numerous external drives, that I need to find and weed out. While Spotlight is busy indexing all of these drives (and giving me nothing until it's done), EasyFind is busy finding.
Is it posible to search multiple files on EasyFind? I have excell table with the products of over 100 codes. Can I also ask for 10 images in same moment, for example? Thakns in advice
Pretty nice. Generous of the devs to make it free. Only thing missing is highlighting in search results. I would happily pay if they added that feature.
I use this since the first version and always find this small program extremely helpful. As already written here it is a fast small, stable and exact finder application. And it is running with nearly every MacOS ever developed. Big thanks to the developer and big thanks too that it is stiull a free application.
I use this program often...after I use AppCleaner to delete a program I then use EasyFInd to locate any residual files associated with the deleted application.
The best file find tool for the Mac! Wish the "Find"-er still worked the way EasyFind still does.
If I had one request for this little gem; is there anyway to make cmd-F start FasyFind rather then the very lame Finder's built in "Find" dialog. Anyone know how to other then using an app like Apptivate (boy do I miss ResEdit)?
Does what the finder and Spotlight can't do, it finds anything, simple easy to use, I take this every where with me on my portable HD, Love it, I'd happily pay to buy this, spotlight sucks, EasyFind finds stuff!
EasyFind is just an awesome app that finds everything on my Late 2013 iMac and external drives including the things that Finder cannot find and it has saved me a lot of time not only in file management, but in deleting those allusive files left behind when uninstalling other apps that AppCleaner misses.
This app is amazing. I use it at work over a network on huges disks with tons of files (where Spotlight fails to index those drives properly) and it finds my queries in no time. I also tried Find Any File but it has less options. It could use a better icon though.
Sheesh! I don't know where you guys are coming from. Mac's search ability is the OS' Achilles heel.
Even when I know the exact name, Spotlight, or these third-party alternatives, never bring it to the top of the results list.
This is not a review because I've only tried EasyFind once, to look for files related to a deleted app. It found six files/folders, which I deleted. Then I tried FindAnyFile - that found no less than forty further files!
