![]() As I discover new apps, I'll try them out to discover they are based on Spotlight or some such nonsense. ![]() > I appear to be on a never ending quest to find a decent search system for my Mac. > On Jun 18, 2016, at 10:12 AM, 'Rob Willett' via foxtrot-search wrote: Screen Shot at 12.47.17 PM.png.zip ( mp export=download ) Please download it from the following link: The file attachment of this email has been uploaded to the cloud. Then you can also have other indices, but make sure you disable them after use so that your system menu only searches your main index.įinally, if you haven’t discovered this yet, the syntax for advanced searches can be found at: The setup which you have left should be restored as your new default. Configure the first one (Main index) as above, and create a search window with only that one selected (possibly setting it to “filenames only” as well. If you want to have the best of both worlds, ie filename search only using the FoxTrot System menu and content find from within the application, you can do this in FoxTrot Professional Search by having several indices. This way, the index you will have created only contains filenames, no find by content. If you need a visual representation of this, download the attached link below. If you have other volumes, click all the predefined locations off, drag the volumes you wish into Custom folder, and when you have each of these selected, uncheck all the boxes under “index contents of files”. If your focus is on filename searches, I suggest you change your FoxTrot Personal settings to not indexing contents: this is real easy to do if you just are indexing your main volume: use the preset “filenames only”. We hope to offer more than a comfort stop on your never-ending quest. Is this possible or does our never ending search go on :0 Means we get more files back than we should. ![]() What we can't seem to do is to gave the default of filename searching. So far we can do regexp filename searching and have a quick access method, Search thats fast and simple and autoindexes. Using find or FindFile or EasyFind or whatever. Have to change the type of search to filename searching which is what itĤ) It needs to be quick, we know we can search directly the whole disk Double hit controlģ) We want the quick search default to filename searching. FoxtrotĢ) We want to have a quick way to access the search. We have gazillions ofįiles and we want a quick and easy way to get access to them. Of my searches (if not more) are filename based. Old code on our Macs and wanting to find files and THEN dig into them. The reason for this is maintenance of a lot of I am very happy to doĬomplex regexp on filenames. What I *mainly* want a search engine to do isġ) Search on filenames, using regular expressions. Spotlight needs taking out into aĭeep ocean, have a large concrete block tied to it and slipped over theĪnyway, back to the real world, have downloaded Foxtrot Personal Search and As I discover new apps, I'll try them out to discover they areīased on Spotlight or some such nonsense. I appear to be on a never ending quest to find a decent search system for
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