Spotlight indexes and then doesn't find folders.  Need boolean folder search by name.

I have re-indexed (via adding and removing from the list at " ▹ System Preferences ▹ Spotlight ▹ Privacy") an external HD twice, and still Spotlight fails to return positive hits on many Finder folders.  (I've even watched the indexing progress in the status bar that shows in the Spotlight HUD in Yosemite.)
EasyFind, the free program from the makers of the DevonThink family of products, finds them.
The external drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled).  I have used it for a few years.  Less than 1/5 full.  It is a FW800 drive connected via an Apple FW<—>Thunderbolt adapter.
OS 10.10.  MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013).
Suggestions?
Bonus:  what I need to do is search and rename thousands of folders containing tens of thousands of files.  In order to do this efficiently, I need to perform boolean searches on folder names.  (These searches are straightforward:  "Contains X and Y; Contains X and not Y; and, if available, Starts with X and contains Y.)  EasyFind allows boolean searches of file _content_ but not (quizzically) file or folder names.  Suggestions?
Thanks.
—Kirby.

(Sorry — could not figure out how to edit my OP.)
I should have mentioned that both Spotlight and Finder's search have the exact same problem.  (As I understand the OS, this is expected, as Finder uses the Spotlight indices.)

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