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Oh every damn day

they dont want you to know where anything is.

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!

You really need an AI assistant to do it, and not Siri.

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.

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/

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

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 ...