You should find some podcasts on using Finder spotlight search to locate files on your mac below. Specifically you might find the first 3 of the Finder series useful for what you want.
Podcast List Easy iTunes 12 on Yosemite Series 01 Easy iTunes 12 Part 1. This podcast demonstrates easy music location and playing in itunes 12. It then walks through how to set up column browser to achieve this. https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/62n7k3 Finder Series 04 Finder Part 4. Using Folder Actions to create Download alerts. This is demonstrated by using the RNIB Talking Newspaper and Magazine service and covers transferring a newspaper to an SD card for playing in a portable player . A brief look at using iBooks to read the same newspaper on the Mac is provided at the end. https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/n6v1i3 03 Finder Part 3. In this podcast we look at how to search within a folder location,, also searching by file type without file names, and using Finder Sort parameters to assist with searching by file types. https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/rnp0vi 02 Finder Spotlight Search Notes Reference Notes Text Document detailing the finder Spotlight operators described in Podcasts 1 and 2. https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/522j2w 02 Finder Part 2 Using Finder for searching for music using tag file information. Also using finder to search by filename under different document formats. https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/jw1re7 01 Finder Part 1. Using Finder spotlight search to locate files by filename and not text content. Also creating smart folders to automatically update and arrange Finder searches. https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/ceacsz Safari Series Safari Part 7 YouTube https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/jim2ys Using Safari on the Mac Part 6 – Searching Basics, Google Search and Google Snapback. https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/hxoomi Using Safari on the Mac Part 5. Strategies for using and customising the Reading List. https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/wmbw5w Using Safari on the Mac Part 4. Flexible Web with Sweet spots and Reader commands. https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/alr2yi Using Safari on the Mac Part 3 Bookmarking part 2- Launching bookmarks and bookmarks folders from the Desktop / or the Dock. https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/04aj3b <applewebdata://CC9BC664-93FE-4BFA-8029-D1D9A490EDF9/%22> Blank URL document template to use if dragging and dropping does not work on your Mac to create bookmark shortcuts. https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/gvj63a Using Safari on the Mac Part 2 . Bookmarking Part 1 Bookmarking, organising bookmark folders and and organising quick access to Favourite web sites through the Favourites bar keystrokes. https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/fpye9z Using Safari on the Mac Part 1 – The pros and cons of Quick Nav and the Web rota. https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/qtftnl itunes Series Easy Music Listening with Column Browser in iTunes https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/gp431y iTunes Part 2 Using Playlist to listen to RNIB and Mp3 Talking Books https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/e6kohy Spell Checking and Proof Reading Series Spell Checking on the Mac Part 1 https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/uuul6e Spell Checking on the Mac Part 2 https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/z5wvc8 Part 3 Proof Reading on the Mac. https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/b3m395 VLC Series Using VLC to play upto 1000 Radio Stations on the Mac https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/uev995 Working Radio Stream Folder and sub folders containing over 1,000 Radio Streams as explained in the above Podcast. https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/8v58fh Using VLC to play an RNIB Talking Books on the Mac with Variable Speed. https://www.sendspace.com/pro/dl/kve0ky. > On 22 Dec 2014, at 21:15, Dionipher Presas Herrera <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I'm just wondering how do you search a file on your computer? do you use > spotlight? how can you do this? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
