Hi Ricardo: I tried doing that with spotlight, and got exactly nowhere. Don't know why, though.:)
Carolyn H On Jan 12, 2011, at 9:16 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Wow! > > using spotlight sounds a whole lot faster and easier. > > Ricardo Walker > [email protected] > Twitter, Skype, and AIM: rwalker296 > Google Voice: 1-646-450-2197 > > > > On Jan 12, 2011, at 11:01 AM, Jon Cohn wrote: > >> 1. Open the folder >> 2. Hit command-option F to put the cursor in the find selector >> 3. Enter Sour cream >> 4. Stop Interacting with the tool bar >> 5. Hit VO-Right three times >> 6. You should be on a radio button that says "This Mac" >> 7. One more VO-RIght and you will be on recipes. Hit this radio button 8. >> Now continue until you find the standard Finder sub-windows... >> >> Best of luck, >> >> Jonathan >> >> >> On Jan 12, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Lynn Schneider wrote: >> >>> Hi Carolyn. Actually, what I was hoping was that it could search the >>> contents of the recipes in a certain folder for this one ingredient. In >>> some recipes, sour cream isn't in the file name itself, so was hoping I >>> could get it to search the contents. I could do this on Windows quite >>> easily, so am hoping for a way to do it on Mac, or maybe a program that I >>> could download that will do this for me. >>> >>> Thanks so much for your help. >>> On Jan 12, 2011, at 9:25 AM, Carolyn Haas wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Lynn: >>>> Try interacting with the recipes folder. Then use item chooser (vo-i) and >>>> put in sour cream. >>>> Hope that helps. >>>> >>>> Carolyn H >>>> On Jan 12, 2011, at 7:20 AM, Lynn Schneider wrote: >>>> >>>>> I thought I was opening a container of rice pudding, but instead opened a >>>>> container of sour cream. I knew I had some recipes on my Mac that >>>>> contained sour cream, so, not wanting to waste the sour cream, thought >>>>> I'd bring them up and find one but just cannot figure out how to do it. >>>>> My recipes are all in a folder called recipes in my documents folder. I >>>>> first opened my recipes folder, then used option-F to bring up the find >>>>> dialog and typed in sour cream in the search box, but I can't figure out >>>>> how to make it just search the recipes folder and not the whole entire >>>>> hard drive. I know how to do it in Windows, but not sure on the Mac >>>>> side. Any help would be most gratefully appreciated. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks in advance. >>>>> >>>>> Lynn >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> [email protected]. >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
