You realise that a few hours ago you trashed an important file by accident. How can you search your Time Machine backups without looking through them one at a time?
Find Any File
How the name of one of the two ancient Greek Graces confuses Spotlight’s search box, and which characters can separate words.
How Spotlight works, Core and global Spotlight, importing failure, exclusions from indexing, re-indexing, excessive re-indexing, failure to find, iCloud Drive and network shares.
Will Monterey 12.5 fix the memory leak in the Find feature in the Finder? That looks increasingly unlikely, and may influence your decision as to whether to upgrade.
If you’re not careful, you can end up watching the Finder steadily eating your Mac’s memory until it grinds to a halt. The bug explained with solutions.
EasyFind, Find Any File and HoudahSpot compared, and tested against a wide range of search targets. The results are surprising.
The Eclectic Light Company 