Finder: Search in Specific Places...

Hallo!
I've read this doc:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107005
Do you know how to specify multiple places to search in for Finder Search Engine?

You cannot directly via the normal Finder search function. You can select any folder in which to search. Selecting a folder that contains other folders will result in all folders being searched within the folder as well as the folder itself.
For complicated searches you need to be able to program a query such as you will find described in Spotlight Query Programming Guide. This is a bit out of my area of expertise. You also might look here, Spotlight Tips for additional information and sources.

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I am a PC expert user switching to mac...
I really like the mac, but the help needs to be greatly expanded. I am sure it is simple, but it is not intuitive, and help is worthless on this issue.
In finder, I want to search a particular folder for a particular extension. I have spend a lot of time googling, checking help, and I don't see it.
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Everything about a Mac ought to be intuitive, but in the case of the latest iteration of Spotlight such is, unfortunately, not the case. Almost everything about the GUI for Spotlight is wrong-headed, counter-intuitive and/or backwards. You might get some useful tips for using it effectively from the article I wrote on Leopard's version of Spotlight:
http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/Leopard/leospot.html
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This is embarrassing!
I want to use Finder
     File-->Find
to do complex searches (e.g. using "Kind", "Created Date", "Contents", etc.) on a specific folder. I want to use the Finder "Find" GUI, not the Spotlight "command line".
I think I need to discover how to add additional places, folders, to the search location header of the Finder Search window, which now contains (by default?)
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D'oh!   It's such a stupid question that ... the obvious web searches are useless.
So... how is this done?
I feel like I'm totally missing some basic assumpation of the current 10.7 Finder search metaphor. Please feel free to fill me in.   (Why isn't there a "+" button at the far right of the Search locations header, instead of what I see now, only a "Save" and a "-" button? That would seem the logical way to add locations to search.)
TIA

Whew, sorry...
[A tedious description of various experiments, failing attempts to sort this problem omitted here.]
I note that Finder Preferences ---> Advanced offers 3 choices for searches, schematically:
     When performing a search:
      (1) Search This Mac
      (2) Search the Current Folder
      (3) Use the Previous Search Scope
[Another tedious description of more experiments omitted here.]
Just a moment... Selecting alternative (3) does the trick for me!   I can now restrict the search directory to "Fum". I just need to:
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b) Interpret "Current Folder" as the folder open and at front.
Life is now good!   <heavy sigh>

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Does the 10.5.7 update address command+f finder search issues?
Search has been horrible under 10.5 in that it does not reliably find FOLDERS on network drives, only file names.
Even when I am looking directly at a folder and I search for it will not appear in the command+f window.
Also the stupidity of not allowing a specific search location.
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I do not have a choice now to search a specific hard drive.
10.4.11 gave me the option under "OTHERS" to select a specific place to search.
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I talked with Chris in apple engineering several months ago, who acknowledged that search problems are a known issue under 10.5 and this was being addressed but have not heard any more. I don't want to download an update unless these broken search issues have been fixed. This is a production machine and I cannot have downtime in the Dept.

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The search results are usually from all boxes and all accounts, which is not what I want
Is there a solution ?

You'll get that if you type "how do I search for text" or just "search" or just "find"
At the top level, under Essentials, Search Messages gives you the same as the top hit on Eric's search.
The answer to your original question in the post is given in number 3.
If needed, change your search to vary the results:
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If I want to find something inside a single message, I would choose "Search a Message."
If I wanted to find a particular message I would choose "Search a Mailbox"
Or, I would type, "find a message" or "search for messages" in the Help search field and the top hit would be turns out to be the answer.
Or, even simpler, since "Search Messages" is the only main item referring to "Searching," I would start there. In that case, it goes right to what you want.
If I really wanted to know about searching for text in a particular message, I would first scroll to the bottom to see what was offered as related topics. Lo and behold, there is a related article that discusses searching in a message.
However, the help files in OS X are not very robust. They never have been. The Macintosh Way is all about trying things out and see what happens. You can always undo (most of the time).
But for people who need to read a book, David Pogue makes a ton of money publishing the Missing Manual series.

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After some digging, I found that Spotlight returns the pdf attachment (found within the library/mail/download folder), but not the actual email. The only time it returns the email is if the search text or numerics are coincidentally within the written contents or subject line.
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Hi. I'm looking for bookmarks that may contain a particular word. Is there a way to filter my spotlight (or finder) searches just for a particular file type? I know you can sort results by file type, but it's rather just filter in the first place...

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1) Check the GAC and ensure that the schema is there, be sure the version numbers are the same.
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What
you need to do to fix "There was a failure executing the receive pipeline… failed to load. Verify the schema for this document specification is deployed and is in the Global Assembly Cache" Error after deploying BizTalk Solution
You can get everything you need to learn about BizTalk here at Learning
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Here is the solution: BizTalk
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