Find Any File (FAF) 2.4 beta1 macOS

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Posted on 31 Dec 04:40 | by mitsumi | 28 views

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Unhappy with Spotlight because it does not find files that you know to be there? Use FAF to find every file on your disks, including those usually hidden. By file name, date, size (not by content, though!)

• Recover a file whose name you partially remember?
• See what files got changed in the past 5 minutes?
• Find all the large files on your disk?
• Uninstall software that leaves files in hidden places where Spotlight doesn't look?
Find Any File (FAF) is the perfect tool for these tasks.
You can even search on disks that are not indexed by Spotlight, including server volumes.
Find Any File can find files that Spotlight doesn't, e.g. those inside bundles and packages, and inside system folders that are usually excluded from Spotlight search.
Contrary to Spotlight, it does not use a database but instead searches the data on disk directly. This lets you search for file properties such as name, creation and modification dates, file size, even plain text inside files.
Another useful feature is its hierarchical results view (see screenshots). It lets you view the found items within their respective folders, making it often much easier to browse through 100s of found items.
Finally, it is fast. Not as fast as Spotlight, but it usually only takes a few seconds to locate all searched items on a disk.
Release Notes
What's changed in 2.4b1 (327) "58th Birthday"
We're nearing a release! (It's been a year since the last one.)
▪ The final version will be 2.4. Please test this b1 throughly and report anything out of the order, including things that were supposed to be fixed in the past year but aren't.
▪ New support for BBEdit: If you have its Command Line Tools installed, you'll have one or two new commands in the right-click menu
▪ "Find with BBEdit" appears only if you had searched for text content, and then the search is repeated in BBEdit, so that you can see where the seeked text appears in the files.
▪ "Browse with BBEdit" opens all items in a single BBEdit window. This feature requires at least v14.1 of BBEdit.
▪ The "(slow)" indicator for volumes is not shown any more by default. Missing it? Let me know!
▪ Supports searching Google Drive better when it's in "Mirror Mode".
▪ If you hold down the command key when double clicking on items in the results, they're not opened but revealed in Finder instead.
▪ Changed the menu "Show untranslated names" into "Show localized file names" (checked by default).
▪ When Tabs are enabled in Result windows, new results appear in another Tab instead of a new window.
▪ When restarting in root mode (Find All) while there are still result windows open, the non-root app remains running along the root app so that the results aren't lost.
▪ Text content search has been improved for the "regex" input: The text is now considered multi-line, i.e. the regex delimiters ^ and $ can be used.
▪ Fixes several cases where the results were not updated fully when files were changed or renamed.

Supported Operation Systems
macOS 10.11 or later

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