I mean, expand your criteria. That is, start with "name contains l", or "kind is media", targeting only your main folder. You'll get more than you want, but this is just to see if things are working. Slowly add more to your search (remember that it's live, so you need only adjust text or parameters to have the search run again). Hopefully, you can narrow it down and find where the search stops finding too much and starts finding not enough. I haven't used searches often, but when I do, they work well and are very convenient. > On Aug 13, 2016, at 15:30, Larry Thacker Jr. <larry.thacker...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > It can’t be much simpler than only consisting of Name contains Larry. > I even tried moving all the files into a fresh folder and rebuilding the > search on that folder. I get the same results. I’m mystified. I can live > without the convenience of the search, but why something so utterly simple is > not working is puzzling. Plain old MS DOS can do better than that, albeit > without the ability to save the search. >> On Aug 13, 2016, at 4:54 AM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com >> <mailto:mehg...@icloud.com>> wrote: >> >> Have you considered widening the search until you get all, or more than all, >> your files? You can then narrow it bit by bit and see where you and the Mac >> are not on the same page. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Aug 12, 2016, at 23:18, Larry Thacker Jr. <larry.thacker...@gmail.com >> <mailto:larry.thacker...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >>> Thanks for the reply. I found the instructions for rebuilding the index, >>> and you can get it to do one folder by adding and removing it from >>> Spotlight’s excluded folders. I did that and observed the files >>> disappearing and reappearing in the saved search. Trouble is, it is the >>> same set of files. I even tried modifying the search so that it only looks >>> for “Larry.” Still the same set of files. Learning AppleScript is on my >>> to-do list, but I would not have expected to need it for something as >>> simple as this. A little disappointed with my shiny new toy. Perhaps a >>> bit more Googling is in order. >>> >>> Larry >>> >>> >>>> On Aug 12, 2016, at 11:08 AM, Jonathan Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com >>>> <mailto:jon.c.c...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Larry, >>>> >>>> I don't think anybody answered you on this. One possibility is that the >>>> database that is used to support search services like spotlight somehow >>>> missed those files. You can do a Google search on how to re-build the >>>> Spotlight database. If you have a hard disk Macintosh (not solid state), >>>> then it could take overnight to rebuild the index database. >>>> >>>> Another approach you could take is to learn AppleScript something close to >>>> : >>>> >>>> tell finder >>>> set mmfiles to every media file whose Name contains "Sean" >>>> >>>> I am not sure this is the way to grab media files as it has been several >>>> months since I did any Finder Applescripts. >>>> >>>> Take care, >>>> >>>> Jonathan >>>> >>>> Best wishes, >>>> >>>> Jonathan >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Aug 1, 2016, at 4:42 PM, Larry Thacker Jr. <larry.thacker...@gmail.com >>>>> <mailto:larry.thacker...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I’m relatively new to the Mac, but this seems straightforward enough, >>>>> except it doesn’t seem to be. I have a subfolder in my home folder >>>>> called Podcasts. I want to work with a subset of the files in this >>>>> folder, specifically, those featuring yours truly. So I created a saved >>>>> search that simply says kind is any, name contains Message by Larry. >>>>> This search should return more than 60 files, but it returns 9. I looked >>>>> at one of the file names that is not turning up and it matches case and >>>>> all. 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