Use Finder to search just certain directories?

Is it possible to use Finder or Spotlight to do a search for files that are just in a certain directory or subtree, rather than searching the whole disk?
Or if not that, is it possible to sort search results by the directory where they are found?
Thanks, and sorry for the newbie question. I did look around quite a bit myself before asking.

mitchgrrt wrote:
I see. It sort of, partly, does what I want. It seems like you can limit the search to one of the "places" that show up on the left side of Finder. So on my Mac I can choose to limit the search to Desktop, mitch, Applications, or Documents in my case (my username is mitch).
That's an improvement, but can I limit the search to subdirectory mitch/dir1/dir2? That's what I would really like.
of course. as I told you open mitch/dir1/dir2 in finder and start the search from there. the search will default to searching the whole mac but in the search toolbar you can switch to searching just this directory. and if you want you can save the result as a smart search and put in the the sideebar for quick access if you do this particular search often.
Or can I sort the search results by where they are in subdirectories?
no, you can't do that.
Thanks.
Message was edited by: V.K.

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