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.

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.

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.

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.

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