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Well, spotlight AND File->Find both yield the same results.
Here I am looking RIGHT at a file that is located in Hard Drive/Library/Application Support/Digidesign/Plugins and both spotlight AND find come up with nothing for the file.
How deep does this search function actually go and is there anyway to search my entire drive for a file?
Thanks.
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Every now and then, the Spotlight Database gets sort of corrupted.
Using Spotless typically fixes this.
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You could if you use a file manager. Try Forklift
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Originally Posted by cwkmacuser 
You could if you use a file manager. Try Forklift
How will this fix his problem that Spotlight doesn't find what's there ?
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File managers, like forklift, search the entire hard drive. He did ask if there is anyway to do this!
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Chris K.
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Try changing your criteria to include system files and make sure you're also searching by file name not contents. Spotlight should normally search Application Support but set it to system files just to see what you get.
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Originally Posted by cwkmacuser
File managers, like forklift, search the entire hard drive. He did ask if there is anyway to do this!
Forklift uses Spotlight.
If the Spotlight DB is broken, Forklift won't find it either.
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Originally Posted by OnTheKeys
Here I am looking RIGHT at a file that is located in Hard Drive/Library/Application Support/Digidesign/Plugins and both spotlight AND find come up with nothing for the file.
Add System Files->Included as search criteria.
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Or you can use the shell.
find / -name "foo" -print
will print the full path of all files in / that contain "foo" in the file name.
You can restrict the search to certain areas like
find /Users/myName/ -name "foo" -print
Use sudo to peak into root only areas.
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Originally Posted by turtle777
Forklift uses Spotlight.
If the Spotlight DB is broken, Forklift won't find it either.
-t
Really? I thought it had it's own search mechanism. Sorry for the inaccurate info!
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Chris K.
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That's why find is such a useful tool. Most GUI search apps rely on Spotlight's database. CLI commands like find or locate don't. I guess GUI wrappers for both exist. I don't know what they're called, but somebody else her surely will.
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