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Architecture: 68k PPC
MacUser's Find Pro III
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Download macusers_find_pro_iii.sit
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For System 6.x - Mac OS 9
For System 6.x - Mac OS 9
The best (and fastest) and MUCH FASTEST find utility on Mac. I relied on this software for a decade nearly!!!
It could search entire computers (2 or 3 hard drives) in seconds!!!
Awesomeness.
CompatibilityArchitecture: 68k PPC
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Spotlight indexes everything. But OS X doesn't search everywhere
I've used the 'mdfind' command to look everywhere with the Spotlight database. In general, it's pretty robust, but the way it's implemented in Finder isn't.
At least find by content is fast and accurate -- usually.
This is for OS 6, and 7 as well, try using Sherlock or Spotlight under OS 6 and 7. I still believe it is the fastest search engine before Spotlight was released.
PS. There is an NTFS search tool for Windows, called Everything -- it is even faster than Spotlight
Works with Windows XP, don't know about other OS versions...
Well, it can be. But Spotlight is hated by many users.
It doesn't index the folders you want it to, ie. it only does select folders, many of which I don't want to be indexed.
It hammers you Mac for a day / a week building these indexes.
It insists on searching by content when most users are competent enough to want nothing more than searching by filename or date.
If an index hasn't been generated, searching by filename is slower than old QuickTime v1.0. Honestly, if I need to search the disks on my Mac Pro (OSX 10.5), I'm quicker connecting to it from an OSX 10.3 Mac and using the Finders 'Find' from there.
Great for plain text documents, hopeless for databases, images (and their EXIF tags), archives, etc.
I can see why it's there, it's a god-send for clueless chumps who have no idea where they save their documents,
FindPro is much faster than Sherlock 2: just search for a single letter on your HD. You will see how slow (really slow!!!) Sherlock is compared to FindPro. Sherlock 2 is more comfortable, though, because you can drag files from the search results to any other place or folder. FindPro does not allow this drag and drop.
Spotlight searches pretty fast .. if an index has been generated.
Back in the days of 80MB hard disks. Try it on the 8.5TB attached to my G5.