Search or sort by file type?

has anybody figured out how to search/sort by file type (.psd, .cr2, Etc.)?
I've been looking, but I can't find it.

Bring up the search HUD, use the "+" drop down menu to add an "other metadata" criteria choose file name and type in the extension that you are looking for.
RB

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How do I sort by file type?

I was wondering how I can sort by file type? I have a bunch of .moi and .mod files in a directory and want yo delete the .moi files. If I could sort by type, then it would just be a matter of highlighting those and deleting. I tried sorting by kind, but since they are seen as Unix Executable files by the OS, it sorts them but not by .moi or .mod. Thanks in advance for your help.
MAC OS 10.6.8

I don't believe you can sort by extension. However, what you can do is to type .moi into the search field at the top of the Finder window where you see those files. That will initially show all .moi files on your entire computer. At the top of the displayed search results will the the text "Search:" followed by three choices. "This Mac" should be selected, but the name of the folder you were looking in will be the second choice... click that one. That will cause the search results to contain only files from that folder, containing the text ".moi", which should be the ones you're interested in deleting.

Custom sort by file type?

Hello. I have been using PSE6 for a while but have recently started the trial of Aperture.
There is a lot to like in Aperture, but I have been unable to get around the problem of sorting my RAW and JPEG files.
I shoot in RAW+ and have been importing using PSE's importer. That renames the image files and places them on my hard disk. Each image exists as both a .dng and .jpg.
I have imported a few of these sets of files into Aperture to evaluate it, but can not work out how to do the PSE equivalent of filtering by file type. In PSE I can select a filter to show just the JPEGs or just the RAW. That way I don't have to scan through duplicate versions of every image. Worse still, Aperture doesn't show the file extensions in the filenames that sit under the thumbnails, so both file types for a particular image appear with the same name.
Can I do the same in Aperture? I saw the 'Custom' option in the sort drop down menu and thought that might do it, but it is greyed out. I can't find anything useful about that option in the manual.
Reading other posts in this forum I realise that if I had imported from the cards using Aperture I would have only seen the .dng files unless I ctrl-clicked and that would be fine for me. But I have over a year's worth of files already imported with PSE and need a solution to deal with those.
Thanks!
P.S. I just worked out that I could type '.dng' into the search box on the film strip and that displays only those files. That gets the result I need, but not as elegantly as having a predefined or custom criterion I can select.

I too have found that a bit frustrating that there isn't the sort by "kind". I'm used to using Lightroom and/or Adobe Bridge. I like you, have the dng and finished jpg or tiff's next to each other. I have found a work around that works most of the time to sort so it is easy to see which is which.
Instead of looking at the photos as a thumbnail, look at them in the list view and sort by pixel or file size.
My dng's are always way larger so they are all listed together. I then can rate the originals. Then I sort them by File Name and the stars from the originals show up.
Sue

When doing a Command+F search, can I EXCLUDE file types?

I need to find a logo called "5 Star". I know it is either a tiff or eps file.
I search brings 3000+ items.
Most of these are internet cache files, fonts and PDF files.
Can I EXCLUDE a file type when I do a command+F?
What happened to the "IS NOT" paramater in the find?
I see Name;
Is
Starts With
Ends With
Contains

Yes. If you use "Apple Command -f" , you can specify all sorts of search parameters (see OTHER) in an exclusive manner. You can only use the parameter choices which are provided, but for example, you can use "NAME + contains" "star" with KIND as "other" and specify "eps." or ".tif." Or use NAME + ends with ".eps."
I am not sure where the exclusion AND NOT feature went. Each list of possibilities is associated with the pre-canned options.

Search Results Weight By File Type?

We are crawling a series of folders using the NT CWS. Some folders contain primarily HTML content while others contain binaries (PDF, DOCs). The folders are split into "Web Content" and "Publications" at the root -- so they are already segregated by file type. Because the binary documents are relatively large and contain a lot of text (meeting minutes, etc), they seem to rise to the top of many search queries. Not sure if the search engine is simply counting the number of term matches or using some other algorithm for relevance. I've fiddled with the Search Results Manager - Banner Fields weights without much success.
Can anyone recommend a strategy that will weight our HTML documents higher than PDF/DOC files? I know through the Search API, we can restrict search to particular folders but that is different than actually affecting the weighting. Ideally, want to show any HTML docs and then show binary docs, below.

Bring up the search HUD, use the "+" drop down menu to add an "other metadata" criteria choose file name and type in the extension that you are looking for.
RB

Sort by file type

In the "View Preferences" there does not seem to be an option to insert a "file type" column. If it isn't possible to do this, I'd suggest that this option be made available. If it is possible, how is it done?
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Custom Windows XP Pro

hi Wade!
try the "Kind" selection in "edit > view options".
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How can I search and sort media files to eliminate duplicates?

I have been downloading video files off of a SanDisk media card and I haven't been deleting old files off the media disk. Each time I download the files, I have been downloading a duplicate set of old files.
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It should be caused that Windows Search is not installed on the second server. See following steps to install it:
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Search / Replace on other Files Types

When do a mass search using DW CS3 and search on a directory,
the search ignore certain file extension such as .properties. How
can I tell the DW to search on ALL files or modify the files
extension list that the program searches on?

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> ignore
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Trying to sort library by file type

Hey all, I'm trying to sort by file type so it can quickly arrange all the TIFF files together in one easy to see group. I'm not sure if I am doing something wrong here, because it keeps just slightly rearranging my images, but not putting all TIFF together and all RAW together. They are still mixed, and I have to select by hand, which negates the purpose of sorting by file type for me.
Any help is appreciated.

Thank you, that worked. I guess out of sake of discussion though, is there not a way to just apply a view filter while in the library module to show only files of a certain type? Like in Bridge, how you can set a view filter for like... Anything. Am I missing something here? This seems like it should work too, because on the bottom of the screen there is a fly down menu that lets you select things like file type, extension, etc... Yet it doesn't seem to actually work as far as narrowing down what you are looking at in your window.

"File Type Codes" in OS-X

I've just learned that these codes were probably discontinued after OS-9. Here's why I care:
I have many QuickMail messages saved to various places on my hard disk. While I can still run QM, this surely will not be possible much longer. What I'd like to do is to change all those files to TEXT files, so I can always count on being able to read them. I thought I could use spot light to search for the QuickMail file type code then somehow change it to TEXT [or to that of Apple Mail, my present client], but that was OS 9 and other utilities, not X. Another problem is now I don't even know the QuickMail file type code.

Regarding QuickMail, AFAIK the format was not plain text (see this format description). If you have serious stuff to convert (rather than just a few messages), take a look at Email Alchemy. You may find additional options on the eMailman site.
Regarding type and creator codes, there's quite a bit of confusion about them. These are two 4-character codes used by Mac OS to determine what a file is (type) and what application created it (creator). They are metadata, and they are not "embedded" in the file; rather, they are maintained in a distinct database. Mac OS X still used them (alongside other methods), but, in Tiger, they were officially replaced by UTIs. They were still honoured by the OS until SL, when OS support for the creator code was dropped. (Sparking a fascinating controversy among Mac afficionados.) Both codes are still there, and you can see or change them with a suitable app (eg, Quick Change), but only the type code does anything useful -- if no other file metadata is available (such as filename extension), Mac OS X will use it.
Keep in mind that the type code is metadata -- changing it does not change anything in the file itself. For instance, you can change the type code from TEXT to JPEG, but that doesn't mean you've magically transmogrified plain text into a picture. You've merely told the OS to treat this file as a picture, which will cause an error.

Can I only search for specific file types?

Oftentimes I need to pickup just the InDesign file. I sort by type but there are word docs, images (lots of them!), web pages, etc. Is there a way to search in Client A's folder and all sub-folders for just InDesign files? Thx.

You can use the filter panel for this. Click on the triangle in front of
File Type (if it is not already open yet because it does so the moment there
are two or more different File types in the folder you pointed Bridge to)
Click on the File type you want to show and only those will appear in the
content window
Is there a way to
search in Client A's folder and all sub-folders for just InDesign files? Thx.

Spotlight: How to search for specific file types?

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...

Command F should do it. Once the search window appears, you should see a drop down box headed kind and next to it one headed any. Select PDF from the any one. Click the plus button, and another field will appear and you can see again more drop down boxes. You just want to set these up so you end up with name and contains, you can then add your text to the remaining field.
Also see [this|http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/index.html]
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File type in Spotlight and Finder search

I have several lectures that are all Keynote presentations (both 08 and 09) and wanted to make a smart folder to have them all in one place. However, doing that, I realized that my Keynote files are not listed as "Presentations" but rather as "Documents", along with my Pages documents and many other files, including images and music files. Actually, almost every file type is listed in the Documents category. Is there a way to manage these File Types? Searching by extensions does not seem to do the trick.
Very confused.

Thanks, that's much better. However I only find 21 files with this setting, but I know that there are at least 50 in my Home directory. Any idea why? Is there like a time limit as it seems that its mostly older files that are ignored.

How to search unknown file types?

Is it possible to get DW CS3 to search the contents of files
that it doesn't recognise?
I'm working on a C# .net 2 site (I prefer editing in DW than
VS), which includes .resx files. I have the files within a DW site,
yet searching for strings I know exist in selected files yields no
results. However, opening them in DW, and then searching content
does return a result. But this isn't very helpful when you don't
know what file you're looking for!
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I'm using 902.
The custom xml item type is something that was created by Oracle Netherlands. They based it on the File type. We input items of this type using XOpus, which is a javascript based XML editor that is embedded within the browser, so when we click on the portal link to edit the item, xopus renders the xml content, and we make changes or enter data and save it.
This shouldn't matter though. The XML items are definitely being added to the database, because they are accessible later, but these items never show up in the search results for items (whereas items of builtin types, file or text, do show up). Whether this is because they aren't being indexed, or for some other reason, I'm not sure.
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Reading shape file and searching by file type

I want to write an application for working with ESRI .shp files which I think shouldn't be too hard. Looking for recources on this forum I didn't find any at all, which is unusual to me.
It made me wonder the following: Why can't I search for resources on ni.com by file type? I see a lot of applications that interact in some way with existing file types (beyond ordinary xls, doc and txt), but information (be it articles, links or forum questions) are spread out all over the web (if the information exists at all). I would love to see recources grouped by file type, so I can see in a list of extensions which types people program for(in labview). Maybe there's allready something like this that I am not aware of?

We don't have a way to search content by file type. And since most attachments are zipped up by NI or by customers, searching for a filetype probably wouldn't yield the results you were looking for.
If an article (or customer question) makes a reference to that filetype in the text itself, or includes a link to such a file, the file extension will be indexed.
I don't see any content relating to ".shp" files, so I would recommend simply posting your request to the appropriate product category in the Forums.
Best of luck with the application.
-Carrie Hooper
National Instruments
Web Support & Operations

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