Incomplete Finder find command results

In Tiger I would use the search box in any Finder window to look for files. It would do a decent job of sorting and it displayed results sorted by "type" of file. With Leopard I cannot find folders or files in the user's Library folder (and other places). Is there a way to get Finder's find command to do a more thorough search? BTW I usually look for folders and files by name.

system files are excluded from searches by default. to include them do the following.
type command+f to bring up a search window. Click on "kind", scroll down and select "Other". in the resulting popup choose "system files" and set to include.

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In Contacts, select
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When I scrub a word document with the "Find" command, the hits are darn near impossible to see. Just a very faint outline. Is there some command that can bulk up the "found" box on the document, or perhaps fill it with an opaque yellow or some such?
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Welcome to Apple Discussions and the AppleWorks forum.
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2. You can set the system highlight colour in System Preferences > Appearence. The preset choices are all in the pastel range, but choose Other and you'll get the Colour Picker where you can choose a more intense colour. There is a trade-off here, though—the more saturated colours will make it difficult or impossible to read the highlighted word in the document when the window is active.
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(1) ... when I click on the box to type the words I want to find, the insertion point doesn't appear, but the letters do appear there after I type something [minor], and...
(2) ... a FEW results of the search do appear instantly, but the window seems to enter a semi-frozen state [major; see below], and ...
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Hello, I'm new to applescript. I'm trying to write a script to compare column B of one excel file to column B of the another excel file.
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Below is some of the code I have so far. The applescript error message is "Microsoft Excel got an error: The object you are trying to access does not exist. It highlights the find column."
set patientFile to choose file with prompt "Please select the patient Excel file:"
set patientName to name of (info for patientFile)
tell application "Microsoft Excel"
open patientFile
set thepatientFile to workbook patientName
end tell
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if the button returned of the result is "No" then
display dialog "Please put your data in empty column E" buttons {"Cancel"} default button 1
if the button returned of the result is "Cancel" then
end if
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set relativeName to name of (info for relativeFile)
tell application "Microsoft Excel"
open relativeFile
set therelativeFile to workbook relativeName
end tell
end if
end if
display dialog "Is your relative SNP data in column B of the" & " " & relativeName & " " & "excel file?" buttons {"No", "Yes"} default button 2
if the button returned of the result is "No" then
display dialog "Please put your data in column B" buttons {"Cancel"} default button 1
if the button returned of the result is "Cancel" then
end if
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copy value of cell "A1" to cellPatientFile
find (range "B:B" of workbook relativeName) what cellPatientFile
if cellPatientFile is true then
set bold of font object of cellPatientFile to true
end if
end tell
end if
end if
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Hi,
taffners wrote:
Thank you everyone for your help. I attached my code. It works now but kinda slow. Does anyone have any hints on making it faster.
Important : when you use the find command, it's preferable to use the properties ( look in and look at).
Example : find searchRange what searchTerm look in values look at whole
Otherwise, it will search according to the criteria of your last find.
Example, if you uncheck 'Find entire cells only', and after that you run the script,
find column 2 what 10.0 --> match 110.0 or 1110.0 or 310.0, .... , because it look at part.
set screen updating to false : Yes it improves the speed.
Here are my tests (no duplicate values in the Excel column ) on old computer (Powermac G5) .
set screen updating to false without any activate object command
2000 rows --> 3.7 minutes, your script : 11.5 minutes
4000 rows --> 7.5 minutes, your script : 23 minutes
8000 rows --> 15 minutes, your script : 46 minutes
But, it's faster to search through a list without using the Excel find command, no need to set the screen updating, You can continue working on the workbook or another workbook, this will not disturb the script.
Tests on my script :
2000 rows --> 4 seconds
4000 rows --> 21 seconds
8000 rows --> 1.3 minutes
17000 rows --> 6 minutes
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main()
display dialog "Done"
on main()
      script o
            property patientSNP_list : {}
            property relativeSNP_list : {}
            property resultsList : {}
            property copyAnswerList : {}
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                        repeat while low ≠ high
                              set mid_ to (low + high) div 2
                              if value is in items low thru mid_ of my relativeSNP_list then
                                    set high to mid_
                              else
                                    set low to mid_ + 1
                              end if
                        end repeat
                  end considering
                  if (item low of my relativeSNP_list is value) then
                        set end of my resultsList to item low of my copyAnswerList
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                        set end of my resultsList to {"no"}
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      --opens File1. Names it patientName
      set patientFile to choose file with prompt "Please select the patient Excel file:"
      set patientName to name of (info for patientFile)
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            open patientFile
            set thepatientFile to workbook patientName
            set patientSheet to sheet (name of active sheet) of thepatientFile
      end tell
      --This Dialog assigns where the data is stored for file1
      display dialog "What Column is your patient SNP data of the " & " " & patientName & " " & "excel file?" default answer "" buttons {"submit"} default button 1
      set PatientSNPCol to (text returned of the result)
      --This Dialog assigns what row your data starts at for file1
      display dialog "What row does your patient SNP data start in the " & " " & patientName & " " & "excel file?" default answer "" buttons {"submit"} default button 1
      set patientSNPRow to (text returned of the result)
      set patientStartCell to PatientSNPCol & patientSNPRow
      --This Dialog assigns the last row of data for file1
      display dialog "What row is the last row of you patient SNP data start of the " & " " & patientName & " " & "excel file?" default answer "" buttons {"submit"} default button 1
      set patientLastRow to (text returned of the result)
      set patientLastCell to PatientSNPCol & patientLastRow
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      display dialog "What column would you like the results of this program stored in of the" & " " & patientName & " " & "excel file." default answer "" buttons {"submit"} default button 1
      set resultsLocation to (text returned of the result)
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      set relativeFile to choose file with prompt "Please select the relative Excel file:"
      set relativeName to name of (info for relativeFile)
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            open relativeFile
            set therelativeFile to workbook relativeName
            set relativeSheet to sheet (name of active sheet) of therelativeFile
      end tell
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      display dialog "What Column is your relative SNP data of the " & " " & relativeName & " " & "excel file?" default answer "" buttons {"submit"} default button 1
      set relativeSNPCol to (text returned of the result)
      --This dialog assigns the column of data begining copied to excel file1.
      display dialog "What Column contains the data you would like copied to the " & " " & patientName & " " & "excel file in column" & " " & resultsLocation & " " & "?" default answer "" buttons {"submit"} default button 1
      set copyAnswer to (text returned of the result)
      tell application "Microsoft Excel" -- get values
            set o's patientSNP_list to value of range (PatientSNPCol & patientSNPRow & ":" & PatientSNPCol & patientLastRow) of patientSheet
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            set value of range (resultsLocation & patientSNPRow & ":" & resultsLocation & patientLastRow) of patientSheet to o's resultsList
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I have another script that uses the power of (/usr/bin/awk and his associative arrays) in a do shell script
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Using Find Command

Help
If anybody can try this and tell me how it works I would be forever grateful.
I can not seem to get the FIND command to find timecodes
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(true) && (((kMDItemFSInvisible = 1) && (!((kMDItemDisplayName = "\DS_Store"cd) || (kMDItemDisplayName = "\Icon"cd) || (kMDItemDisplayName = "\localized"cd)))))
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I fixed it in CCC to not to backup that directory but I need to remove all the old ones.
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Oracle LInux 5.6 x86-64
Note the below 'find' command and output:
oracle:+ASM$ find . -user root -exec ls -l {} \;
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3625 Feb 3 12:39 ./srvm/admin/logging.properties
-rwsr-x--- 1 root oinstall 1242078 Feb 3 12:35 ./bin/extjob
-rwsr-x--- 1 root oinstall 43752 Feb 3 12:35 ./bin/jssu
-rwsr-x--- 1 root oinstall 68432 Sep 4 2010 ./bin/oradism
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8445 Feb 3 12:39 ./bin/oradaemonagent
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2378 Feb 3 12:39 ./evm/admin/conf/evmdaemon.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3041 Feb 3 12:39 ./evm/admin/conf/evm.auth
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4955 Feb 3 12:39 ./evm/admin/conf/evmlogger.conf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13522 Feb 3 12:37 ./crs/install/roothas.pl.orig
-rwxr-x--- 1 root oinstall 399 Feb 3 12:39 ./crs/install/s_crsconfig_itdwprod_env.txt
total 340
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 605 Feb 3 12:39 appvipcfg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1802 Feb 3 12:39 clsrwrap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4031 Feb 3 12:39 cluutil
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1293 Feb 3 12:39 cmdllroot.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 15167 Feb 3 12:39 crfcheck
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10065 Feb 3 12:39 crsconfig_dirsQuestion is why is it reporting a bunch of files (I've truncated the list for brevity) with no relative direcotry? Further investigation revealed that there are actually two of each of those files, in different directories. I don't understand why 'find' didn't report as such.

Perhaps the following gives you the results you are looking for:
find -user root -lsI think the problem you are experiencing is due to the hidden . and .. directories, which are also owned by root. For example:
ls -l .... will show you the files of the current directory and hence parsing the found objects using the -exec ls {} command will produce the duplicated result you are seeing.
You might be able to use your command by adding "-type f", but I think using "-ls" is more efficient.

Unix find command...

My problem exists with the behavior on the unix find command, or my lack of understanding of it.
For example, I work for a graphics company and we have a constant folder structure like this:
*12345 Apple - Poster*
~....~01_Layouts
~....~02_Images
~....~03_Fonts
~....~04ClientOriginals
~........~01.28.08_14:46
~........~03.07.08_15.03
~........~03.10.08_17.22
When we receive files from a customer, the CSR creates a folder inside 04ClientOriginals following a format like 03.06.08_10.15, and copies the files/folders from customer supplied media into them.
I have set up a launchd script that finds all of the date/time stamped folders inside of 04ClientOriginals that have not been modified within the past month and stuff them with the Stuffit command line utility. I do that with this command:
find . -type d –mtime +30 -ipath #/04ClientOriginals/# -exec /usr/local/bin/stuff -f sit5 -m 2 -o -D {} \;
This command works fine except in those cases where there are folders over 30 days old inside of a parent directory that is not 30 days old yet. I only want the find to descend to one level below 04ClientOriginals, and no further.
I thought by adding an extra "/" at the end of the path #/04ClientOriginals/#/ instead of #/04ClientOriginals/# would keep it from descending further down, but when I try this the search returns no results. Also, I can’t use -maxdepth in my find arguments because the depth of 04ClientOriginals is not always constant.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Edit: Due to the lack of decent markup tools for formatting code on the Apple Discussion Board, the wildcards in my file paths have been substituted with a "#". Kind of ridiculous for a unix discussion board to not have code highlighting capability.
Message was edited by: Guriboy

etresoft wrote:
I don't know if these will work or not. Regular expressions are powerful, but tricky. Plus, there are a few different, but similar, varieties. Also, I don't know if the find within a find syntax will work. This might be something that is better suited to Perl. You would then have much more control over what you are doing.
Running this find command finds exactly what I'm looking for:
find . -type d -name "04ClientOriginals" -exec find {} -mtime +30 -type d -maxdepth 1 ;
I hope I'm wrong, but can't you call -exec only once? As a test I ran this:
find . -type d -name "04ClientOriginals" -exec find {} -mtime +30 -type d -maxdepth 1 -exec ls -l {} ;
If I invoke -exec a second time, I get this error:
find: -exec: no terminating ";" or "+"
find: -exec: no terminating ";" or "+"
find: -exec: no terminating ";" or "+"
I've searched high and low and I cannot find an example of the find command calling -exec more than once.
My regex skills are pretty weak, so I'll only tread those waters if I have to.

Find Command Not Searching System Folders

This seems like a tough question to answer but I cannot find a way to use the Finder's "Find" command to find files in the User/Library/ folder (ie: looking for specific preference files) or any other System folder for that matter.
I was trying to find a certain ".plist" file using the "Find" command but even typing the exact, full name of the ".plist" file directly into the search box still wouldn't bring up a result in the list. I had to manually go into the Preferences folder and locate the file.
Is this a limitation of the Finder's "Find" command or is there some way I can "tell" it to look in all the System folders?
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Also, see http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/Leopard/leospot.html and my mod to Finder's Find at http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6725932 for what you can change so you can find stuff excluded by the default structure.

"Find" command problems

I'm using 10.4.2 and iCal 2.0.2. When I do a search using the Find command in iCal it only searchs the current month, is there a way to get it to expand the search for all the months? For instance when I enter the term: Lunch. It will show this months Lunch meetings but not last months.
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Here you go, from Apple Tech Support:
After updating to Mac OS X 10.4.2, you may not be able to find iCal 2.0.2 events that were created prior to updating when using the search function in iCal.
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