Tembo is an easy-to-use file search tool based upon the powerful Spotlight engine. Tembo finds documents, folders, mail messages, bookmarks, images, videos, and more. It shows results grouped by file type. Initially the top 10 matches for each group are shown. Often enough you will find the sought for file right here.
Drill-down into a group reveals up to 10,000 results alongside context-sensitive filters. These help narrow down the results list. The "Messages" group, for example, has filters on subject, sender and recipient. The "Images" group has filters for resolution and file type.
Thus Tembo is much more than a file search tool. It works as an extension to Mail or iChat to locate messages; as an extension to Safari to search browsing history and bookmarks.
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Apparently even Tembo is looking for a better search tool. :-)
Tried Tembo and searched for a song I have and it divided the search into categories: Sibelius files, messages, folders, PDFs and movies. 10 in each category. To the right of any category is the total amount of files/folders and click on it and you can see ALL of PDFs or movies or folders or whatever.
Purchased and got a license thru Paypal and it was easy. $15 dollars so if discontinued no biggy . . . but I think if will be around to stay since it is smooth, looks Mac-like and even the purchase was easy.
Try EasyFind for free and then this and you can pretty much make a good decision.
Above they said
"Tembo finds files, folders, mail messages, bookmarks, images and anything else on your Mac."
ANYTHING?
NO!
Below they said
"Tembo can find any file included in the Spotlight index.
To prevent clutter, Tembo excludes a couple of file types from search results. You can configure this under Tembo >Preferences > Advanced.
Unlike the default Spotlight interface, Tembo does not hide the contents of the Library folder.
Low level system files however cannot be found as Spotlight does not index these."
Clearly Tembo can NOT find EVERYTHING, but is only capable of finding files indexed by Spotlight.
EasyFind on the other hand, CAN find EVERYTHING...for FREE!