Find File

Still working like a charm: macOS High Sierra10.13.5 Beta.

Still working like a charm: macOS High Sierra10.13.4 Beta.

Has started to crash every search, may need to find something newer.
El Capitan v10.11.6

Still working like a charm: OS X El Capitan v10.11.5.

Simple, flawless. Exposes the old Finder search by file name and does it well. A quick pro tip: drag Find File into a Finder window menu bar for instant access everywhere. I've used this from Leopard through Yosemite with never an issue, including any ugly display bugs. This is what clean coding looks like.

Still working like a charm: OS X v10.11.4 beta. It makes you wonder what this utility might have become, had it been developed even as far as v1.0b. Naturally, there's a catch. FF finds every possibly-relevant file, so a certain amount of weeding-out may be necessary. But, since the finds can be in either Alphabetical or Date Modified order, for me, there's no problem.

Excellent. One of the best utilities that I've found

Blimey! Wonderful! The only way to find all the bits Logmein scatters all over the place! And shows them in finder so you can zapp the little beggars. I've virtually given up on Spotlight as it will say it can't find a file when, to test it, I've got it sitting there on the desktop right in front of me... .John R Chang, you are my hero.

This is still working in MAVERICKS. Pro: It will find *everything*! It you need to find _something_, but you have only the vaguest idea what it is and/or where it is, Find File will find it, whatever it is, wherever it is. Con: it will find *everything*! Unless you can specify *precisely* what it is that you're looking for, Find File will find _everything_ that contains the search-string, so that you may get *thousands* of hits. But, there have been several occasions when I've been desperate enough not to care. If you've ever been in that situation, then this is definitely what you need. Besides, seeing all of the possibilities just may trigger the memory-synapse that holds the precise name of what you're looking for. Then you're in business. You never know.

In Lion !0.7.2, I have thrice successfully found an invisible, .keylemon folder that KeyLemon had installed into the Share folder in Drop-fxcking-Box, for God's sake! And this invisible file alone has all of the code necessary to lock you out of computer just as easily as the full installation can! And it does it from inside DropBox! It even has the power to resurrect itself from a Secure Empty Trash!

I gave this five stars based on two criteria. It's FREE, and it WORKS. It's very spartan, but it works. It finds all that stuff that Spotlight does not, since Spotlight only searches particular parts of your hard drive. Looking for junk in your system folder that Spotlight will never show you? Find File will turn up all that stuff. I hate spotlight because it never locates what I'm after. I can do a folder search in Spotlight and type a text string that is in the title of a file right in the folder and it will say no results. This app finds everything.

It STILL works like a charm, even with 10.7.1 Lion!

Find File searches your whole computer for an item whose name contains (whatever you enter as the search query). That's it. No other choices or search parameters available. No preferences to set, no view settings to adjust. You can filter the results of your search (by name), but that's all. If that's the kind of search you want to do, Find File does a good job, and it includes hidden files in the search results. This is commentary only; I'm not going to rate this app, because I probably won't use it much. I don't often need to search my entire computer, which has three boot volumes and one data volume--all for different purposes. I usually know which one of those volumes I want to search, and I don't need to search the others. So, for most purposes, I prefer a search app that lets me specify the directory I want to search. Nevertheless, I can't find any fault with Find File. It's free, it's FAST, it does exactly what it claims to do, and it does it well. If you need a free search application that provides more features, try Find Any File or EasyFind.

Clean, clear and simple. The best of this category that I have used so far. Use it together with iTrash to confirm that all files are found. A Mac application in the best sense of the word:)

Superb. You have your Mac Find File feature back, without all the beachball spinning of the incredibly slow DEVON EasyFind Very similar features to FindAnyFile but FindFile is wrapped in Cocoa instead of RealBasic and seems faster on its feet. Thanks John R. Chang for this wrapper! PS. Please put up a website and a donation button.

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An option to include/exclude package contents is missing. Many of us are not interested in looking for files inside these packages.

Great little application. I find myself using it quite a lot. The only thing which would make it perfect is Quick Look support for the files you have found!

Totally cool. I dislike Leopard Spotlight immensely because I can't find the files I want to when deleting an app or finding a pref file. This finally brings back ease to searching on a Mac. I do wish it remembered my preferred window size whenever it opened a window though. I have to resize every time.

Get this to work like (or add features that will allow it to) the file search under 10.3 and it will be perfect. Spotlight is practically useless as a "file"-search utility, Apple knows this, have since the first days of 10.4, and they just ignore the thousands of complaints. Blows my mind why they don't just port the routines to an app, and provide it to users.