Take a look at EasyFind from Devon-technologies.com. It's free on their downloads page.
Sent from my iPhone On 31 Mar 2011, at 19:45, Ranulph Glanville <[email protected]> wrote: > I may be being a very naive searcher, but I do find the search function very > inadequate. Looking for a particular file, I seem, generally, only able to > use one criterion. If I find all the files with some property (eg word in > file name) that appears to match it, whereas I'd like to look for files with > that name and with certain contents. I also find that if I give a title, I > get files with each word of the title, rather than the string. I expect I'm > being very simple about this, but I'd love to be able to search more > effectively. > > I know I can open a search window and that helps with documents. But inside > mail, or using spotlight, I find I'm often searching for a needle in a > haystack. > > I'm sure someone will be able to point me in the right direction, which is, > no doubt, somewhere obvious! > > Thanks, Ranulph > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB.
