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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How to SEARCH for specific file TYPES, e.g. PDF?

If I know the title has in it "resume" and I know it's a PDF, how do you search for all PDF files that have the word "resume" in the title?
AND..
How would you search all PDF files that had the word "supervisor" inside the document?
Thanks

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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Search For Specific File Type (eg .txt)

I know how how to find files in a folder using Java but how do you search for specific file types. I am looking only include files with the extension .txt in my search.

Cheers. I already looked at that. Got a program that parses a XML and had a play about with it. Can print the contents of tags in my XML. Its just that im trying to parse my XML and have the contents of the starts_with tag to appear in startsWith(or a variable to which this has been assigned) and the contents of the extension tag to appear in endsWith. Totally clueless on how to go about it.
Below is my class. Would be greatful if you have any ideas.
import java.io.File;
public class FindLatestFile {
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                     File latestFile = null;
                     File[] fileList = thisDir.listFiles();
                     for(int i=0; i < fileList.length; i++){
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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.

How to search for a file?

Hi I am currently using the below code to detect a file automaticaly in a thumbdrive. So currently I have to state the path directory to detect the particular file. Is there a way to search for the file in the thumbdrive using Java?
public class Detect {
public static void main(String[] args)
File f = new File("f:\\");
while (! f.exists())
try { Thread.sleep(500); }
catch (InterruptedException e) {}
System.out.println("drive inserted!");
}

You'll need to recursively search through a top directory and all its subdirectories for all files. Here is a link how to do this.
http://www.javapractices.com/Topic68.cjp
You can search for all drives A through Z for the file (using something like new File("F:") and catching the exception if not found (and dont do anything with the exception). But exclude C and D drive since they are usually hard drives and take forever to search through. Also, you may want to use File.separator instead of '/" or '\' in your code since windowsXP uses one while Unix uses the other and you would want your code to be able to run on either operating system.
Are you building a web page with this? if so, it will not work since your search code would be running on the server and not on the client's machine. Even if you were able to run it on the client machine via his browser, you cant because of security reasons (end users dont want to give you access to thier drives). If its a web page, look into file upload html tag called <input type="file". This allows the end-user to navigate on his machine to where the file is and download it without you having to search for it.
If you writing an application instead of a web page, I think there is an applet you can use that will do the same thing as <input type="file".
Searching though a directory structure isn't good since it takes too long for users t wait.

How to search for a file and copy it to somewhere else in terminal

So basically how can I search for a file on my computer named "testingtesting.txt" and copy it to my desktop using terminal? I have very little experience in terminal, so I was going to try and use the mdfind command, then store that output as a variable, and use that variable as the source for the cp command, but I feel like there is probably a much simpler method. So basically how could I find a file named "testingtesting.txt", copy it, and paste it to my desktop using terminal.

Is there any particular reason that you must use Terminal?
You could just download the free EasyFind from the App Store and find the file quickly. Do whatever you wish with it.
Good luck,
Clinton

How to search for duplicate files?

Is there a quick and easy way to search for duplicate files? (and other space hogs) I would like to do some hard drive spring cleaning. Trying to free up some space. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Carl

Here are some apps to try:
Singular, http://www.emeraldion.it/software/macosx/singular.html
DupeCheck, http://dfay.fastmail.fm/dupecheck/ (uses the terminal suff and Spotlight under the hood)
FileBuddy, http://www.skytag.com/filebuddy/

I need to know how to search for malware files, apple told me to contat you, I am getting popup and malicious warnings and need to talk with someone please

I began getting popups for Microsoft malware alerts/Mackeeper zeobits/and othe ads. I am on a Mac OS 8.5.
I downloaded virus protection, adware protection and ran them all and got nothing. Then I got a phoney call from the "microsoft technicians, so called Applecare and they told me what files to search for if it was Safari and suggested I contact Firefox. Below are the files we search for on my hard drive, but because I use Firefox
they suggested I contact you as I am somewhat concerned. Can you help advise, thanks
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.vsearch.agent.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.vsearch.daemon.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.vsearch.helper.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/Jack.plist
/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/Jack
/System/Library/Frameworks/VSearch.framework

Thanks, I am not sure if this is what you are asking for but here goes
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How to search for all files w Metadata mismatch?

I Upgraded recently from LR2.6 to 3.3.
Many of my images have an Exclamation Mark on them, following the upgrade, informing me that there is a Metadata Mismatch...
When I click on it I get this Dialogue box:
Firstly I think LR developers are playing with potentially important information with a lack of care and consideration. I looked at the metadata in 'File Info' in Photoshop before clicking anything: the creation date was the date the file was created and much of the camera data was missing. After I clicked Overwrite Settings all the original data was back on the file. I have no idea how this came to pass exactly, but it shows metadata is an easily lost thing.
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Thnaks Peter

areohbee wrote:
Beat,
Please share the SQL statement.
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    from      Adobe_images                 as    Image
             ,AgLibraryFile                as    LibraryFile
             ,AgLibraryFolder              as    LibraryFolder
             ,AgLibraryRootFolder          as    LibraryRootFolder
             ,Adobe_AdditionalMetadata     as    AdditionalMetadata
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      and     LibraryFolder.rootFolder      =    LibraryRootFolder.id_local
      and     AdditionalMetadata.image      =    Image.id_local
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Beat Gossweiler
Switzerland

How to delete a specific file type from a folder

Hi,
I have folders with lots of zip or rar files, once I decompress those I want to delete the compressed files specifically. Is there any way I could manage that through Automator?
Thanks in advance.

Thanks Niel for the script, unfortunately I am too ignorant about running these on my own, I did save it in my user script library, but I would need instructions to run it. I would be really grateful.
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How to search for a file faster?

Hi guys,
Say I got 10 millions files. in order to make the searching faster, should I put all the file inside a single folder or categorize the file under a few directories like c:\a\1234\. TIA !
regards,
Mark

>
Say I got 10 millions files. in order to make the
he searching faster, should I put all the file inside
a single folder or categorize the file under a few
directories like c:\a\1234\. TIA !
Whether you are searching for a particular file or searching within all the files then putting 10,000,000 file in a single directory looks (to me) to be silly!
If you just want to find a particular file then why not build an index (say in a simple database). If you want to search within all the files then some directory tree structure will stop Java having to load into memory the whole of your directory content.

Searching for specific file extensions etc?

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Thank you!!

Create a Smart Folder.
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In the grey area at the top of the Smart Folder window, click +This Mac,+ and Filename (on the left) and then the "+" sign on the right
In the new row that opens, click the dropdown box on the left and select +File Extension.+
Enter .jpg in the box after the word "is"
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How to search for a file at application server?

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I need to choose one file for further processing from the directory, located into 'WORK' directory at application server. As far as I see, class CL_GUI_FRONTEND_SERVICES and FILE_OPEN_DIALOG woudn't help me - it's a 'FRONTEND_SERVICES'.... and work with directories at presentation server.
The requirement is that the user has no file sharing from his local PC to the mentioned directory at application server - this directory is visible only in the scope of the application server. I need something as flexible as CL_GUI_FRONTEND_SERVICES=>FILE_OPEN_DIALOG, if exist.
How can I achieve this?
Any help would be highly appreciated.
Many thanks in advance.
Regards,
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Thanks to all contributors!
After short testing I found the following:
1. F4_DXFILENAME_TOPRECURSION is not what I was looking for - it doesn;t behave as expected.
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How to search for movie files on harddrive?

Saw today in Lions new layout under "This Computer" that my harddrive contains 147GB (out of 320 GB) of movies.
Is there any clever way to track those movie files.
The movie files are probably spread all over the computer. I have for instace made a great deal of Final Cut clips
that tend to be saved in several copies spread in different folders. Besides that, I probably have film and film clips in every imaginable file format that have been saved and forgotten through the years :-) (my iMac is from -07)
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/Friss

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How to search for specific match from an array?

Hi Mike,
Thanks for the reply.
I am reading a position of switches whether ON/OFF. It is nothing but the digital inputs status from the field. I am Indexing that array, and connect it to the LED indicators to show the relevant status. Also I want to raise an alarm once, for the ON switches. By using Search 1D array, I got the first TRUE match index from the array. But if I want to know all the occurrences of ON condition (TRUE from an array of booleans) from an array of switches. How to do that?
Hope this clarifies.
Thanks
Kousy

I almost missed this message because you started a new thread.
In any case, the code altenbach posted will give you an array of the indexes that are set to true. So it sounds like that is at least part of what you want. The alarm you mention, is that one "master" alarm if any of them are true, or is it a separate alarm for each bit?
If it is one "master" alarm for all of them the logic menu has a function for ORing all the elements in a boolean array. Also when you say "alarm" what is the nature of this alarm? A dialog box? a flashing light (real or on the applications's front panel)? message in a status display?
The attached code shows one possible direction by adding onto altenbachs code the ability to accumulate a single error message based on the states of individual bits. (BTW: The other alternative that you might see would be to pass the array into a loop and use a case to append a message of the bit is true. The advantage of the one in the combined VI is that the loop only iterates for the number of true bits +1. Where as the other approach would have to look at all the bits one at a time.)
In a sense this is why I asked for clarification because there are a lot of things you can do when parsing an array like this.
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