Hi Jes, To expand on Ray's somewhat tersely stated advice, press the "Escape" key. Pressing "Escape" is the fast, general way to cancel out of an action, just as pressing "Return" is the fast way to send your selections in a dialog window without having to find and press the buttons to perform the action or cancel it.
What likely is happening is that when you are running a long search through the entire file system on your externally mounted disk at the top level (e.g, perhaps searching through 500GB worth of material), and your command to close the window won't be carried out until either the search finishes or you cancel the action by pressing Escape. If you're trying to find something and know that it is in a specific folder, navigate there first before you try to do the "Find". In Finder you can use the Command-Shift-G shortcut to go to a specific folder on any device mounted on your system, for example, even an external drive. You might find it easier to shift to list view (Command+2) or column view (Command+3) to navigate your external drive. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Jun 22, 2011, at 12:28, Ray Foret Jr wrote: > Escape. > > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! > > Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! > > > On Jun 22, 2011, at 5:08 PM, Jes Smith wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I Was trying to search for something on an external USB drive. I opened up >> the drive and hit command-F. Now, I cannot get rid of the search window, no >> mater how many times I hit command-W. Any help? >> -- 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.
