Re: searching a hard drive
Quick and simple. In finder: 1. command-N (new window) 2. command-shift-C (View computer) 3. command-F (search) Once you put some search items into the search screen you will find check box options on how to search. One of these should be to limit the search to the selected item. Note: there is a good chance that step #1 above is not necessary. Best regards, Jon On 03/10/2010, louie louiem...@wavecable.com 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: searching a hard drive
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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: searching a hard drive
Hi Louie, Jonathan's answer works (sorry, I was interrupted in typing my answer; I checked there wasn't a reply before I started). The only thing I would add is that you might want to navigate to the hard drive (or folder on the hard drive) that you want to limit your search to between steps 2 and 3. If you start at a specific location before you do your search with Command+F (which works as does Command+Option+F), one of the options to refine the search will let you select just that location. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Oct 3, 2010, at Jonathan Cohn wrote: Quick and simple. In finder: 1. command-N (new window) 2. command-shift-C (View computer) 3. command-F (search) Once you put some search items into the search screen you will find check box options on how to search. One of these should be to limit the search to the selected item. Note: there is a good chance that step #1 above is not necessary. Best regards, Jon On 03/10/2010, louie louiem...@wavecable.com 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: searching a hard drive
I thought that cmd option space also brings up the search but I could be mixing it up with something else. I don't use it all that often. take care. On Oct 3, 2010, at 3:28 PM, Esther wrote: Hi Louie, Jonathan's answer works (sorry, I was interrupted in typing my answer; I checked there wasn't a reply before I started). The only thing I would add is that you might want to navigate to the hard drive (or folder on the hard drive) that you want to limit your search to between steps 2 and 3. If you start at a specific location before you do your search with Command+F (which works as does Command+Option+F), one of the options to refine the search will let you select just that location. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Oct 3, 2010, at Jonathan Cohn wrote: Quick and simple. In finder: 1. command-N (new window) 2. command-shift-C (View computer) 3. command-F (search) Once you put some search items into the search screen you will find check box options on how to search. One of these should be to limit the search to the selected item. Note: there is a good chance that step #1 above is not necessary. Best regards, Jon On 03/10/2010, louie louiem...@wavecable.com 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: searching a hard drive
command-space can mean a few things: 1. Do a general search in spotlight. (this is what you are thinking of) 2. Switch keyboard internationalization 3. run launcher app if present. For this reason, and also because one can not directly navigate to options to customize the search I recommended the finder method. Jon On 03/10/2010, Sarah Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote: I thought that cmd option space also brings up the search but I could be mixing it up with something else. I don't use it all that often. take care. On Oct 3, 2010, at 3:28 PM, Esther wrote: Hi Louie, Jonathan's answer works (sorry, I was interrupted in typing my answer; I checked there wasn't a reply before I started). The only thing I would add is that you might want to navigate to the hard drive (or folder on the hard drive) that you want to limit your search to between steps 2 and 3. If you start at a specific location before you do your search with Command+F (which works as does Command+Option+F), one of the options to refine the search will let you select just that location. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Oct 3, 2010, at Jonathan Cohn wrote: Quick and simple. In finder: 1. command-N (new window) 2. command-shift-C (View computer) 3. command-F (search) Once you put some search items into the search screen you will find check box options on how to search. One of these should be to limit the search to the selected item. Note: there is a good chance that step #1 above is not necessary. Best regards, Jon On 03/10/2010, louie louiem...@wavecable.com 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
Re: searching a hard drive
Ah yeah I get confused half the time. lol! Thanks. S On Oct 3, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: command-space can mean a few things: 1. Do a general search in spotlight. (this is what you are thinking of) 2. Switch keyboard internationalization 3. run launcher app if present. For this reason, and also because one can not directly navigate to options to customize the search I recommended the finder method. Jon On 03/10/2010, Sarah Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote: I thought that cmd option space also brings up the search but I could be mixing it up with something else. I don't use it all that often. take care. On Oct 3, 2010, at 3:28 PM, Esther wrote: Hi Louie, Jonathan's answer works (sorry, I was interrupted in typing my answer; I checked there wasn't a reply before I started). The only thing I would add is that you might want to navigate to the hard drive (or folder on the hard drive) that you want to limit your search to between steps 2 and 3. If you start at a specific location before you do your search with Command+F (which works as does Command+Option+F), one of the options to refine the search will let you select just that location. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Oct 3, 2010, at Jonathan Cohn wrote: Quick and simple. In finder: 1. command-N (new window) 2. command-shift-C (View computer) 3. command-F (search) Once you put some search items into the search screen you will find check box options on how to search. One of these should be to limit the search to the selected item. Note: there is a good chance that step #1 above is not necessary. Best regards, Jon On 03/10/2010, louie louiem...@wavecable.com 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 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups MacVisionaries group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
