[oy]

Hello,
Back in MacOS 9- you could search by specific KIND/TYPE, ie. Show me all the files of KIND "APPL", or "LWFN".

In 10.2 the find dialog only lets you choose from a few defined KINDs, document, folder, etc.

How can one regain the old functionality of 9?

Ie. I want to search a specific folder on my drive for all the files of KIND "LWFN."

Thanks

[engaged]

The Finder in 10.2.3 i smuch improved and has the 'Find' function, perhaps this is what you seek? Haven't used OS9 much myself, so can't compare;

[pat++]

I guess you'll have to wait for OS X 10.3

[JLL]

Originally posted by pat++:
I guess you'll have to wait for OS X 10.3

Why? Try and look at the find dialog again - it's been in there since 10.0.

[Developer]

Originally posted by JLL:
Why? Try and look at the find dialog again - it's been in there since 10.0.

It's new in Jaguar.

Didn't you read the original post? The problem is that the kinds are limited to a few presets.

Searching by kind is delicate in Mac OS X since the HFS file type is half depricated.

[JLL]

Originally posted by Developer:
It's new in Jaguar.

Didn't you read the original post? The problem is that the kinds are limited to a few presets.

Searching by kind is delicate in Mac OS X since the HFS file type is half depricated.

That's why there is 'extension' among the choices - if an app doesn't support Type and Creator, it should save files with extensions.

If you delete the extensions yourself - well, that's your problem.

[Developer]

Originally posted by JLL:
If you delete the extensions yourself - well, that's your problem.

This thread is not about accidental deltion of filename extensions, this thread is about finding files.

For JPEGs for example this requires a search for 'JPEG' file type or .jpg or .jpeg extension. For the majority of the users this is too complicated.

That's likely why the Finder only offers a few predefined kind types to search for (until it can grab the document types from LaunchServices and search for any type/extension that may be registered for each document type).

[JLL]

Originally posted by Developer:
This thread is not about accidental deltion of filename extensions, this thread is about finding files.

Sorry, but deleting an extension by accident is almost impossible for a regular user (deleting it in the Finder only hides it).

Originally posted by Developer:
For JPEGs for example this requires a search for 'JPEG' file type or .jpg or .jpeg extension. For the majority of the users this is too complicated.

It depends on the user. New Mac users that have only used Mac OS X won't have many JPEG files with a creator.

Originally posted by Developer:
(until it can grab the document types from LaunchServices and search for any type/extension that may be registered for each document type).

Great idea.

[oy]

Unfortunatley the files i'm searching for don't have, and never had, file extesnions. I'm trying to seperate a bunch of Postscript fonts from their Truetype equivalents. The files are all in folders, and subfolders, in OS 9 (which i unfortunatley didn't install) i would have been able to do this using the find command.

Any ideas on how to solve this problem?

Thanks

[JLL]

Originally posted by oy:
Unfortunatley the files i'm searching for don't have, and never had, file extesnions. I'm trying to seperate a bunch of Postscript fonts from their Truetype equivalents. The files are all in folders, and subfolders, in OS 9 (which i unfortunatley didn't install) i would have been able to do this using the find command.

Any ideas on how to solve this problem?

Thanks

I can find 20 apps that can change type/creator but none that can find files using type/creator.

[macmike42]

Originally posted by JLL:
I can find 20 apps that can change type/creator but none that can find files using type/creator.

FileBuddy

[Sal]

Originally posted by JLL:
I can find 20 apps that can change type/creator but none that can find files using type/creator.

How about using AppleScript?

tell application "Finder"
set these_items to every document file of (choose folder) whose file type is "JPEG"
end tell

[JLL]

Originally posted by Sal:
How about using AppleScript?

tell application "Finder"
set these_items to every document file of (choose folder) whose file type is "JPEG"
end tell

[oy]

Originally posted by macmike42:
FileBuddy

Perfect! Does exactly what I want.

Thank you very much.