Finder cannot find - marketing showcase only?
After I got over the theater trailers for finder, I am marveling at its * non * functionality * in doing what I consider some pretty basic tasks.
I'm not asking a lot. For one, I would just like to locate my .Pages and .Numbers and Keynote files. Typing in '.pages' or a '.key' or a '.numbers' finds nothing (unless you individually "unhide" extensions on each file). Clicking Documents finds .jpg, photo-booth and everything else -- beside what I would call a document (like .doc and .pages and ,key files). Why have a "pictures" find at all, if we calling them documents? How is this useful?
If I had 50 keynote presentations, why can't I limit the search criteria to only keynote files and browse through them? This is such a basic function (going back to *.doc in DOS 2.1) that I'm rather amazed that X10.5 has missed such a obvious utility.
Please help me if I'm wrong, because I'm trying to understand this, not complain..
Bill
I'm trying to figure out exactly how to do the Boolean searches in the Find window. I just did an experiment where I brought up Kind is Other: Adobe Photoshop, and got both Photoshop files and Elements files. So then in the Search for: field up at the top of the window I typed in
NOT Elements
and all the PS Elements files disappeared from the list. I then tried putting this in the Search for:
NOT Elements NOT jpeg NOT gif
and got a list of PS files and documents, with a handful of pict, png and tif files. This search returned 213 items in my home folder, initially, with just "Adobe Photoshop" in the Kind is Other, I got 7770 items (I have a humongous number of Photoshop jpegs in web site folder).
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Please read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a test, not a solution. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
Step 1
The purpose of this step is to determine whether the problem is localized to your user account.
Enable guest logins* and log in as Guest. Don't use the Safari-only “Guest User” login created by “Find My Mac.”
While logged in as Guest, you won’t have access to any of your documents or settings. Applications will behave as if you were running them for the first time. Don’t be alarmed by this behavior; it’s normal. If you need any passwords or other personal data in order to complete the test, memorize, print, or write them down before you begin.
Test while logged in as Guest. Same problem?
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*Note: If you’ve activated “Find My Mac” or FileVault, then you can’t enable the Guest account. The “Guest User” login created by “Find My Mac” is not the same. Create a new account in which to test, and delete it, including its home folder, after testing.
Step 2
The purpose of this step is to determine whether the problem is caused by third-party system modifications that load automatically at startup or login, by a peripheral device, by a font conflict, or by corruption of the file system or of certain system caches.
Please take this step regardless of the results of Step 1.
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Reinstall on both.
Reinstall Lion, Mountain Lion, or Mavericks without erasing drive
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OS X Mountain Lion- Reinstall OS X
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Dear All,
I wonder why the following is an error:
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for ( ForInitopt ; Expressionopt ; ForUpdateopt ) Statement
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Many thanks.Very good asif but once again you have not answered
the question.
why?My answer may be partialy correct.But you answer is fully correct.
And don't appreciate me.I'm not good at programming(in Java) like you.
The variable y has been declared inside the loop so
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