EasyFind Not Easy and Doesn't Find
Along with many others, I became frustrated with Spotlight's unreliable searches. As suggested, I installed Spotless and EasyFind. I disabled Spotlight.
I've recently encountered several clear, replicable instances of EasyFind's inability to find simple documents, stored in obvious locations.
Further investigation seems to indicate EasyFind does not reliably find files unless I check "files and folders", even though I have no need to search for folders.
This has shaken my confidence in EasyFind. In addition, it's awfully slow and doesn't search by date.
I have the most recent version of EasyFind.
What alternative is recommended?
Thanks in advance,
Tim
533 mhz dual CPU G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)
To answer my own question, it appears that EasyFind has a bug in it. For instance, I was recently searching for a word processor document called "father's day.letter". When EasyFind couldn't find it, I eventually found it manually.
Trial and error showed that if I check "only files" and search for "father's" or "father" the document doesn't show up with EasyFind. If I check "files & folders" then EasyFind does find it, though it takes a few minutes.
Maybe EasyFind will be satisfactory, now that I know how to work around the bug, or quirk, or whatever it is.
I think I'll try a multi-pronged approach to Spotlight headaches. Apparently there is no ideal solution, for now. I don't want to revert to Panther.
So, I'm forcing SpotLight to re-index about once a week, or whenever it can't find something I know is there. I use Spotless to force the re-index. I'll continue to use EasyFind as a supplement or backup to Spotlight, and now I've added NotLight to the arsenal.
That's not ideal, but it will probably work.
Cheers,
Tim
P.S. Apple -- if you're lurking -- in the next revision of Spotlight, give the user a re-index option, and give the user a choice of what volumes are to be re-indexed. An intelligent alert that says, "It's time to re-index Spotlight" would be appreciated. Also give the user the option of turning off index-by-content and search-by-content. I just don't need that feature. It bogs down my computer and clogs up my hard disk.
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