File search problems in Leopard

I MUCH preferred the older (pre-leopard) finder file search application(NOT spotlight). I was able to type what I was looking for and manually select the drives and servers I wanted searched in the finder window. The results came in, broken down by kind (image, document, pdf, folder) in icon driven sub-categories. Spotlight and the clumsy new search application are a MAJOR setback for me. This is the first bad move I have had to call Apple on.

You can only select the whole computer, or ONE and only one specific location to search (this is a reduction in functionality from the implementation of Spotlight in Tiger). Thus if I wanted to search my Data drive only, not my startup or backup drive, I would navigate in the Finder to the Data drive, then hit Command-F, then click on "Data" rather than the default "This Mac" (which is always selected, which is ridiculous--when you bring up search with a Command-F you want to search in that place, if you wanted to search everywhere you would use the Spotlight menu bar function). The nearest you can come to grouping things is to put the results window into List view (Command-2 or select from List from the View option in the Finder window's toolbar), then click the Kind column. You might find my little essay on Leopard's Spotlight helpful:
http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/Leopard/leospot.html
You might also wish to tell Apple about how you feel:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html/
The more complaints they receive, the more likely things will improve.
Francine
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Can someone tell me if there's a problem with my recursive file search?

I've been trying to get a recursive file search working. I wanted to go through each directory and add every file to a database so I can use extremely fast, advanced file searches through my program. I wrote up this code
<CODE>
package myrecursive;
import java.io.*;
public class MyRecursive {
public static void main(String[] args) {
recursiveSearch("D:/");
private static void recursiveSearch(String x) {
String tempFile="";
File dir = new File(x);
File[] curDir = dir.listFiles();
for (int a=0;a<curDir.length;a++) {
if (curDir[a].isDirectory()==false) System.out.println(curDir[a]);
else {
tempFile=curDir[a].toString();
recursiveSearch(tempFile);
</CODE>
The code was simple but I didn't think I could write it like this without killing my resources or getting a buffer overload. I ran it and it worked. However, I am running a high end box with 512MB of RAM and a 2.4 GHz processor so I don't know if what worked for me will work on a lower end machine. I was told you should avoid calling a method from itself is this true? How would I avoid it? Should I keep it this way? Any recommendations?
NOTE: I ran the code through JBuilder. JBuilder has a console built into the IDE and will return a noise and the error code whenever it hits an error. Although my app kept shooting out files it found out I heard a noise a few times. Does this mean anything?

First the formatting tags should be "[ ]" not "< >".
I was told you should avoid calling a method from itself is this true?Recursion is a valid programming technique and in fact makes many algorithms much easier to code.
so I don't know if what worked for me will work on a lower end machineIt may be a little slower but it will still work. Recursion only causes a problem with resources when you have many levels of recursion. On my system I have:
C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5\
In this case there is only 4 levels of recursion. This is not going to cause a problem. You would generally only have problems if your recusion routine is not working correctly and you get in an infinite loop which will lead to resource problems and an abend.
In your particular case you aren't even using many resources at all since all you are doing is printing the file name.
This [url http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=57&thread=435487&start=3&range=1]post shows a recursive routine that list all files for a directory and displays them in a table. In this cause you might have a problem with resources depending on the number of files in the directory. But the resource problem is because of the memory to hold the filenames in the table, not because a recursive routine was used to get the filename.

Wireless/airdrop/file sharing problems

Wireless/airdrop/file sharing problems
I operate an IMac 3.06GHz and an Airbook 1.4 GHz
I frequently need to transfer files between the two, and in OSX 10.6, did so by setting the iMac to share the wireless connection and using drop box
This no longer functions in Lion (1.7.1).
Symptoms are:
1. Air drop simply does not function. Neither computer recognizes the other, even if they are adjacent.
2. The Airbook will recognize the wireless connection, and is able to connect with some programs, but not all.
3. For example, Safari is able to load news sites, but not gmail and a google search freezes, although a Bing search for the succeeds.
4. Turning both Firewalls off has no effect
5. Restarting both computers with new settings has no effect
6. Neither machine shows in the sidebar of finder, therefore I am unable to access one from the other directly.
Any ideas or back to Snow Leopard?

Wireless/airdrop/file sharing problems
I operate an IMac 3.06GHz and an Airbook 1.4 GHz
I frequently need to transfer files between the two, and in OSX 10.6, did so by setting the iMac to share the wireless connection and using drop box
This no longer functions in Lion (1.7.1).
Symptoms are:
1. Air drop simply does not function. Neither computer recognizes the other, even if they are adjacent.
2. The Airbook will recognize the wireless connection, and is able to connect with some programs, but not all.
3. For example, Safari is able to load news sites, but not gmail and a google search freezes, although a Bing search for the succeeds.
4. Turning both Firewalls off has no effect
5. Restarting both computers with new settings has no effect
6. Neither machine shows in the sidebar of finder, therefore I am unable to access one from the other directly.
Any ideas or back to Snow Leopard?

Open PDF's in new window in document library when using "Find a file" search

I need to be able to open PDF's in a new window from a document library when using the "Find a file" search built into the document library "All documents" view. I currently have the following javascript on the page:
_spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push("setTargetBlank()");
function setTargetBlank()
{ $("a[href$='.pdf']").removeAttr('onclick').attr("target", "_blank");
This works great when going to the document library and navigating through the folders then clicking on a link.
The problem is when someone goes to the document library then uses the "Find a file" search and then they click on a link. The "Find a file" search does not do a postback (reload) of the page, therefore my javascript to find the PDF links
and make them open in a new window does not run for the links on the page.
I have read the following article but this does not seem to offer a solution that will work in this situation for SharePoint 2013 (Office 365): http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/7ad3224c-3165-47ae-95bc-4f3928e2f9a8/opening-document-library-pdf-in-a-new-window-sharepoint-2013?forum=sharepointgeneral
I suppose the idea solution would be to somehow tap into the event that is fired when using "Find a file" search to run my javascript and update the links for the search results.
Can anyone offer any solutions to this issue?

Hi,
According to your description, my understanding is that you want to open PDF files in a new window from a document library when using the "Find a file" search.
As you said, the "Find a file" search does not do a postback (reload) of the page, therefore JavaScript to find the PDF links and make them open in a new window does not run for the links on the page.
I recommend to use JS link to achieve the goal. Create a JavaScript override file and upload the JavaScript file to the Master Page Gallery, and then set the JS Link property of the document library web part to point to the JavaScript file.
Here are some links about the JS link in SharePoint 2013 for you to take a look:
http://www.idubbs.com/blog/2012/js-link-for-sharepoint-2013-web-partsa-quick-functional-primer/
http://www.learningsharepoint.com/2013/04/13/sharepoint-2013-js-link-tutorial/
http://zimmergren.net/technical/sp-2013-using-the-spfield-jslink-property-to-change-the-way-your-field-is-rendered-in-sharepoint-2013
Thanks,
Victoria
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Server 2008r2 and windows 7 pro slow to no networkshare file searching and file access (green progress bar)

we are running a windows server 2008r2 sp1 domain controller and a 3com gigabit switch to which 7 windows 7 pro computers are connected. We are only using the windows server to distribute a few printers and as a network share (z drive).
we are storing all files (word documents only) centrally on the server (z share), and files are accessed and written to the z share.
Problem is that file access from the z share on the windows 7 client computers is at best buggy. we are able to browse the z-share, but as soon as we want to search the z-share for files (f.i. use file explorer with "content: memorandum") the green
progress bar shows and no search is performed. something like alphabetically sorting a directory on map/file name on the z-share also shows a green bar with no sorting. manually going to the files works.
One thing i noticed, sometimes not all files that one user created and stored on the server is visible and can be found by another user. I prefer to disable all offline file caching setting, because that feature is not used. no files should be made accessible
offline. i don't know where to change that on the server side.
I am reluctant to experiment on the server end (2008r2 sp1), so i tried a few suggested solutions on the client end (windows 7 client)
I tried disabling offline file caching
i tried properties (z share) ==> advanced and map optimizing and several options there
i tried disabling the smbv2 protocol and disabling the smbv1 protocol (using
sc.exe config lanmanworkstation depend= bowser/mrxsmb10/nsi command etc. posted by microsoft)
i tried disabling windows defender
i tried accessing the z share via ip and server name (the share is mapped via its servername, e.g. dennis-dc1\share). still the same
file searching on the clients c drive ('own harddrive') works much better, file searching on the server also works.
any suggestions or solutions that i can test on the client side, as mentioned i am reluctant to change something on the server side. if a solutions works, i prefer to change it on the server side.

Hi,
The issue could be due to windows indexing service taking long time in sorting and searching in mapped drives. Please try the steps belwo to disable windows indexing service or search service on the windows 7 client to resolve the issue.
You can click on Start and select Control Panel, click on
Programs and Features, go into the Turn Windows Features on or off section Scroll down the list and uncheck the box next to Indexing Service or Windows Search.
Best Regards,
Mandy
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File sharing problems and horror story (nearly)

I use Leopard on a MacBook Pro, a MacBook and a iMac G4 800 MHz (unsupported model).
I have on the iMac and the MacBook Pro many users (the same ont he two machines) and I always use Fast User Switching.
I have had very few problems with Leopard until now; I like it even if there are some glitches or some new features which are not my cup of tea (hierarchical menus missing from the dock, stacks useless when there are many items, FireWall impossibilities (?) to open specific ports, Back to my Mac working on a Lan but not from outside until now, problems with a few apps (Parallels networking erratic), ...
Now about File Sharing.
Let say my main account is user1 (Administrator), and I have another user2 also administrator, plus user3, user4 standard users.
On the iMac I activate File Sharing.
On the MacBookPro, as user1, if I connect to the iMac Server (using afp://IPaddress_of_theiMac/) I do NOT get the dialog
"Enter your user name and password to access file server YYY
Connect to server as Guest or as Registered User"
but I directly get the dialog
"Select the volumes you want to mount on YYY"
From this, if I select user1 it mounts with full read/write permissions which is normal. It appears that I am connected with my Apple account user1&mac.com (same as mentionned in the Account panel of System Preferences).
On the other hand, if I try to connect to the user2 account, I only get limited access although in the File Sharing Preferences, user1/iMac is mentionned with full Read/Write preferences for the Home Folder of user2.
What is very surprising is that if I log on the MacBook Pro as user2, or user 3 or user4, then connect to the iMac, I first get the dialog to enter a user name and a password. This gives me access with the correct full permissions on user1/iMac or user2/iMac using the corresponding user name/password pair; this is the usual behaviour which is missing when trying to connect from user1/MacBook Pro.
Now for the Horror Story!
Trying to understand what was going on with the permissions of the user2/iMac account, I logged in to the iMac as user1, went to the Users folder and from there had a look on the informations about user2 home folder. In the lower part of the pannel, Sharing & Permissions says "You have no access" (which is normal) and this is followed by a table where users and permissions are listed. It seems user1 has Read and Write access in contradiction with the preceding phrase...
Anyway, I tried to modify these authorizations for user2 by clicking on the lock of the Information pannel and entering name and password of the administrator. Didn't go farther than that. By mistake, I hit Command-Delete and user2 was GONE from the list AND NOT ONLY from the list in the Information window! Using Fast User Switching and going to user2, nothing left on the Desktop and NO Home anymore.
In the System Preferences/Accounts panel, user2 was still mentionned.
In the Users folder, no user2 folder anymore.
Using once again Fast User Switching, I logged as user2 and got by magic an all new Home. Nothing left in Documents, Library or other user1 folders. Standard settings for icons, dock, etc.
My first move has been to use a very recent backup to restore everything (Thank you Mike Bombich from Copy Cloner!).
Once everything was back to normal, I had a look at the Trash from user1 and guess what, the Home folder of user2 was there, complete.
So now I am left with two questions
why is it I do not have the same dialogs when connecting from all the accounts although as far as I can see, configurations are the same?
why is it possible, from an Information pannel to delete the account of another user?
Thank you all for comments!

For the file sharing problems, answer is found in
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306723

File sharing problems with my Media Player, an A C Ryan

I have a media player, an A C Ryan, hooked up to my wifi at home and it normally accesses all my hard disks that is plugged and shared on my iMac. I had no problems when the iMac was on Snow Leopard. Under Network/Workgroup in the AC Ryan's menu, I can see and access all the files on the hard disks.
The moment I upgraded to Lion, all such access was lost. The AC Ryan cannot connect to the hard disks any more via the wifi network. it's as though file sharing has stopped completely. I checked the file sharing settings on the iMac and nothing has changed i.e. the disks were shared as usual. After struggling with many possible solutions and failing (I checked out a lot of forums), I reintalled Snow Leopard and the problems were immediately solved.
Is there something seriously wrong with Lion's file-sharing? Has this been fixed in 10.7.2? My friend who has a similar setup (his media player is the WD Live) has exactly the same file sharing problem with Lion.
I would appreciate any feedback. Thanks!

I believe that NTFS-3G has issues with Lion.
I use Paragon NTFS and have had no issues at all. I am pretty sure that NTFS-3G will get updated, but you need to check their site to find out when.

File Search Error

Every time I do a file search (on the working set or the workspace) for a string, I get some results,
but the search seems to terminate early when it hits certain files it thinks are "out of sync."
I have checked such files and they have not been modified. The error I get is a mostly empty dialog
that says "File Search (Error: problems encountered during text search.) If I click on the message
(in the "example" application in this case), I get:
Problems encountered during text search.
Resource is out of sync with the file system: /example/WEB-INF/database.xml
Resource is out of sync with the file system: /example/WEB-INF/.nitrox.hotdeploy
All I want is the assurance that when I do a search, the results will be complete. How do I
fix this? I am running the standalone preview-329 under Windows XP with no additional plugins
to the eclipse 3.0.0 that ships with the release.
Ben

Thanks Omar Alonso
I will go through it.
vikas
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Omar Alonso:
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File Search won't search root level

Our company rolled out an application that went to the root level of the HD. I was hoping to use File search on ARD 3.2.1 to find this .app, and delete it from a few users. However, file search doesn't want to show me any Apps in the root level. Is there a way around this?

I am having the same problem, the file search option won't locate apps or even files on the desktop... Any ideas?

Apple has broken Windows file sharing in Snow Leopard

Hi Folks,
Having a serious problem here.
Apple has broken Windows file sharing in Snow Leopard. Many others on the forums are experiencing the same thing. I was almost ready to fully switch to the Mac, then I thought I would upgrade to SL, then this happened...
OK so I have a Windows Server 2003 Small Business Server. It's pretty much the same as the standard Windows 2k3 server except that it throws in a few extras (And takes some things away). I'm also lead to believe, that there is a difference w.r.t. password signing/encryption or something?
Anyways, if I try and connect to my SBS server with the correct username and password (In different formats: Domain\username or just username), I get a "Unable to connect to server. Check IP..." blablabla. This happens after the password prompt has come up.
If I try and connect to my standard windows 2003 server box, it does work, just very slowly (Again, referring to the whole thing about how SBS treats password security differently).
So I ask a couple of things:
1) It would be appreciated if any other forums members could maybe help me get this going?
2) A plea to Apple - please fix this. It all worked perfectly in Leopard!
Apple probably haven't tested SL against SBS 2003 server. A lot of companies don't do this either as they think that it is just the same as the standard 2003 server (Which i hope Apple have tested against!)
Thanks guys

I have the same problem. Here are the details:
External Hard Drive with LAN (Buffalo Drivestation Flexnet: http://tinyurl.com/kk5mmu)
Mac OS X 10.6, on 3 different Mac Mini's
This error occurs on all computers when trying to copy a file to the 'SHARE' sharepoint on the SMB Drive:
"The Finder can't complete the operation because some data in "filename" can't be read or written. (Error Code -36)"
I CAN
Access / Read / Write this Drive in Windows XP
Access / Read / Write this Drive in OS X 10.5.7
Make new folder on this Drive in OS X 10.6
See a .DS_Store file which 10.6 has written to the Drive
Save a document to the drive from the Text Edit save dialog in 10.6
Save a document to the drive from the Pages save dialog in 10.6
Duplicate a document on the drive using Terminal (cp Untitled.pages Untitled2.pages) in 10.6
Copy anything to any other computer on the Network using 10.6
I CAN NOT
Copy a document to the Drive in 10.6
Duplicate a document on the Drive in 10.6
Save a PDF or JPG to the drive from the Preview save dialog in 10.6
This error happens every time. It is easily reproducible.
I hope that this information helps Apple get on to the problem soon.

Allow indexing service to index this disk for fast file searching

Hello,
I'm using Oracle on Win 2000, I have lately found out that the option "Compress drive to save disk space"
is not supported in Oracle.
When I've opened the drive specifications on the properties dialog, I found also another option called "Allow indexing service to index this disk for fast file searching".
My question are;
1. Should I turn it off?
2. Same question when the indexed directories does not include Oracle files?
3. Same question, when the indexing service is set to off?
Thanks,
Tal Olier ([email protected])

If this is a production machine, I'd definitely turn this off. Hopefully, no one is going to be searching for particular files on a production server-- they'll know where to go. You probably don't want any unnecessary background processes using up CPU or RAM either.
If this is a development machine, the developer may be searching for files with some frequency. If that's the case, it may be worth it to keep this service enabled.
I'm not aware of any Oracle issues when this service is running, but I'm paranoid enough not to trust it on a production box. If you're running on a dev box, you shouldn't have problems, particularly if you're not indexing Oracle files.
Justin

Can't open any excel files after installing Snow Leopard

I can't open any excel files after installing Snow Leopard. Is anyone else having this problem?
I have a standard iWork '08 install. Has anyone experienced? And better yet, know of a fix?

Welcome to Apple Discussions
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Why do I keep losing audio/recorded tracks and SFX in my projects? I have tried: Saving as archive file/searching package contents etc. to no avail. Can anyone help?

Why do I keep losing audio/recorded tracks and SFX in my projects? I have tried: Saving as archive file/searching package contents etc. to no avail. Can anyone help? It keeps telling me 'Audio file not found', and seems to be different tracks in the same project each time too.

iamthewaughrus wrote:
I also have this problem using Garageband in a school network situation when students open their project on one station, save it to their network drive, and later open it at a different station. 90% of the time there will be no issue, but sometimes audio files are lost. (Garageband '11, iMacs)
That sounds like it might be a failure of the students to perform a Save As and check Archive Project when they do. This asks GB to pull all the files it needs into the associated .band document rather than point to them externally (and then risk not having them be there).

PPC-6700 file installation problem

hello, everyone.
well, i just purchased a sprint PPC-6700 pocketPC (windows mobile 5). i downloaded the alpha release of missing sync and got it to connect via USB with no problem whatsoever. ical/address book syncs beautifully.
my problem now is that i'd like to install additional applications and program files on the device. most of the software i download comes with that awful .EXE, and seems to want to be run through activesync or run initially on the PC before transferring to the phone. of course, running a mac, that's not possible.
i started using "File Juicer" to extract .CAB files from those .EXE's and installing the cab files to the device through the "install" tab on missing sync -- to the "default" location.
a small portion of those .CAB files transferred and installed successfully, and are accessible from the phone. however, my problem is that a large majority of them gave me only an error message on transfer, and are unrecognizable by the phone. this would be okay, only they're now sitting there, taking up memory and storage space.
i can't seem to access them with the file explorer feature, or even through the file search feature on the pocketPC.
so now what do i do? i just want these things OFF my PDA, but am i doomed to have to wipe the device clean to do so?
is there a better/more reliable way to install files from a mac? is the problem simply that i'm using an alpha release of missing sync?
ANY advice anyone has would be greatly appreciated. hopefully i don't have to erase everything.
Thanks,
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That's phone FW, adding phone FW to a CUCM has never added a new device type, you need to install the latest DevPack to get support for new devices.
Adding new device types is only achieved via DevPacks or device enabler (if available, very few around)
Also, adding FW does not require any reboot, a DevPack does require a mandatory cluster reboot if you're installing it for new device support, if you only install it for FW, no reboot required.

About Flex Builder3 File Search.

1.In Flex Builder3 's menu -- Search , I only can see two
items: declarations and references.
But when I press Ctrl+Shift+F, then pop File Search window.
Forget menu ??
2.In File Search window, press Search button, then
perspective change to DataBase Development perspective.
Is this a bug?

Hi,
There is a menu entry for this dialog, under the Edit main
menu item. And it has the shortcut key combination that you
mentioned.
As for the second problem, my only guess is that you have
installed another plugin after Flex Builder and it associated the
search dialog with its own specific perspective. If you can provide
a list of installed plugins, and in which order they were installed
we will try and duplicate this issue. (tight now it doesn't happen
for me).
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