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Does anyone on planet earth know how to search for files on Mac OS?

Sounds simple right? Well no, it’s fucking impossible. #Fact
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Ghost👻 · 2w
I have one in my studio, it is only ever used, for studio stuff. It is no easy task. #Hardagree.
Dan Wedge · 2w
Oh every damn day
Kajoozie Maflingo · 2w
they dont want you to know where anything is.
pgsdesign · 2w
Agree 💯 Spotlight has sucked shit all the back to Steve Jobs telling us all at MacWorld San Francisco that it was going to make folder hierarchies obsolete - total bullshit!
The Daniel 🖖 · 2w
You really need an AI assistant to do it, and not Siri.
Black Sheep Rehab · 2w
Pull up a finder window and hit command-F. Doesn’t get much simpler than that. If you’re dicking around in the UNIX subsystem and need to find the files there than run a locate command. I’m not understanding the issue here.
boo-bury · 2w
I use Everything by voidtools as a daily driver but it is windows only: https://www.voidtools.com/downloads/ Cant personally vouch for this link but perhaps it will be of use to you: https://echeng.com/articles/profind/
Lysergic4cid · 2w
but it has a fancy curved arrangement of files that takes a full 360° turn out of your screen so you can see how fancy it is to no see your stuff for a shit ton of money
Curiio · 2w
Yes free and open source solution: https://www.spacedrive.com/ I've been using Space Drive this past week as I got fed up with Finder's "search" feature. It's become a bit of a meme in the programming space that if you ever think you're a bad programmer just look at Mac OS search. Space Drive is ...