Re: replacing spotlight

2010-01-14 Thread brettallica
On Jan 14, 6:12 pm, Dan wrote: > The Finder's Find command is good for searching by filename. > > FileBuddy will do in-file searches. > > - Dan. > -- > - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. Not that you didn't know this, but Find will also do in-file searches, at least on 10.5 Serv

Re: replacing spotlight

2010-01-14 Thread Dan
At 7:36 PM + 1/14/2010, wrote: G4 MDD OS 10.5, plenty of RAM etc. Fully updated? can anyone recommend a good application that can do a search on a hard drive and in a mail folder that I could use instead of spotlight? The Finder's Find command is good for searching by filename. FileB

Re: replacing spotlight

2010-01-14 Thread John Carmonne
On Jan 14, 2010, at 12:19 PM, brettallica wrote: > I'm assuming you're not fond apple+F from Finder. I use that > exclusively (I don't really like Spotlight, but I don't hate it > either). I'll buy that It works for me on any machine. John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA -- You received this me

Re: replacing spotlight

2010-01-14 Thread Kasey Smith
On Jan 14, 2010, at 12:36 PM, wrote: can anyone recommend a good application that can do a search on a hard drive and in a mail folder that I could use instead of spotlight? I hate this application and it doesn't work well at all. Sherlock was so much better. Running a G4 MDD OS 10.5, p

Re: replacing spotlight

2010-01-14 Thread brettallica
I'm assuming you're not fond apple+F from Finder. I use that exclusively (I don't really like Spotlight, but I don't hate it either). -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The

Re: replacing spotlight

2010-01-14 Thread Andy
> can anyone recommend a good application that can do a search on a hard drive > and in a mail folder that I could use instead of spotlight? I hate this > application and it doesn't work well at all. Sherlock was so much better. > > Running a G4 MDD OS 10.5, plenty of RAM etc. > > Linda in Ohio

replacing spotlight

2010-01-14 Thread graphicsone
can anyone recommend a good application that can do a search on a hard drive and in a mail folder that I could use instead of spotlight? I hate this application and it doesn't work well at all. Sherlock was so much better. Running a G4 MDD OS 10.5, plenty of RAM etc. Linda in Ohio -- You recei