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.

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.

• Localization updates (if you like to help, please use the Help menu to Context Support by E-Mail)
• Fixes issues (lockups) with unavailable NFS network volumes.
• File Icons are fully opaque again.
• Makes sure windows appear on-screen when an external monitor gets detached.
• Fixes an issue where refreshing the Results takes an unusually long time.
• Solves an issue with OSX 10.10.2 where opening more than six items failed.
• When searching a "slow" volume, its name is displayed in the Find window again.
• Fixes issues with deleting items on a network volume.
• If the command "Delete Immediately" or "Move to Trash" fails, an error message is displayed.
• Deleting symlinks doesn't instead delete their destination any more.
• Switching between flat and tree views now preserves the selection even if more than one item is selected.
• The shortcuts Cmd-Shift-C and Cmd-Opt-C work again.
• Fix for OSX 10.9 and later: Changing an item's Label removes all other Tags previously set on that item.
• Fixes a few rare crash cases.