Hi Louie,
How do you want to do the search? You could do it in Terminal with
the "find" command after moving to the a particular hard drive's
folder (or the top level) with the "cd" command, or you could do this
in Finder through the GUI. As I recall, you asked about searching a
specific folder for a file with a particular extension once before.
You can handle searches of a specific hard drive the same way: just
start by navigating to either the top level of a hard drive or a
specific folder of that hard drive in Finder. You can do that by
selecting the hard drive under "Devices" in the Finder sidebar, or
using the Command+Shift+G "Go to Folder" shortcut and typing in the
path to the mounted hard drive or specific folder under that drive
(e.g. "/Volumes/<name of external drive>"), or by navigating down to a
specific attached drive from your finder window (starting from the
shortcut to go to the top level for your computer, Command+Shift+C).
To check whether your Finder preferences are set up to display
external disks in your sidebar; bring up your preferences in Finder
with Command+comma and navigate to "Sidebar". There will be a list of
items under "Show these items in the Sidebar" with check boxes. If
"External Disks" is checked under the list of devices, you'll be able
to select and navigate to your external hard drive from the Finder
sidebar. VO+Space on the check box entry if you want to check (or
uncheck) this option. Even if you don't choose the convenience of
displaying the drives in your Finder sidebar, you can always navigate
down to a hard drive, or to a specific folder under the hard drive, by
starting with Command+Shift+C.
Once you've selected the hard drive you want to search, use Command
+Option+F to move to the search field and type in your search terms.
Then VO+Right Arrow to refine your search results (e.g., whether
matches are to "This Mac" or to your selected folder/hard drive) and
add in any other search criteria (file type, extension, etc.) I'm
being sketchy here, but you can go back and read the archived post
answer to your earlier question here for the details:
http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries%40googlegroups.com/msg05636.html
(Re: searching)
Or, if you wanted to do the search from terminal, you could first
change to the folder you want and then use the find command with
regular expression wild cards. For example:
cd /Volumes/Crucial/Documents
find . -name \*.doc > temp && open -e temp
The first command changes your directory to a folder named "Documents"
on an external drive (this is on my Crucial USB memory stick). The
second command finds all files with a name ending in ".doc" in that
directory or any subdirectories of that directory, and writes the
result to a file named "temp" that I'm using as a temporary file.
The two ampersands separate that command on the line with the second
command that only gets executed when the first command successfully
completes. The "open -e temp" displays matches to my search by
opening the file named "temp" in my default editor (TextEdit). So a
TextEdit window pops up listing the pathnames to matching files from
my search.
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Oct 3, 2010, louie wrote:
Hi all,
I have three hard drives connected to my Mac.
I wand to just search one of these hard drives not the hole Mac.
How do I do the search?
Thanks for any info.
louie
louiem...@wavecable.com
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