6

Spotlight does pretty much, but it lacks two critical features.

  1. It cannot search arbitrary locations. It excludes system locations for a better user experience I guess.
  2. It cannot index external drives.

For example I often search the ID of a chrome extension to get to its folder. That's way faster than typing the path. Unfortunately, I do not know how to do this on OS X

Is there an alternative on OS X that includes the features of Everything?

Improve this question
9
  • So far - my spotlight can index external Devices and also System Folders ... Please check your Settings and let us know
    – bMalum
    Commented Jul 6, 2014 at 8:50
  • 1
    Try to use [Alfred][1]. It is free without PowerPack. [1]: stackoverflow.com/questions/858678/…
    – ceth
    Commented Jul 6, 2014 at 8:51
  • @bMalum, the system only offers one simple page for the settings. I have checked all the items, and have no folders excluded.
    – Colliot
    Commented Jul 6, 2014 at 8:54
  • 1
    @Aszune'sHeart, Sorry. it was my mistake. Here is correct link - alfredapp.com
    – ceth
    Commented Jul 6, 2014 at 8:57
  • 1
    Why is this question down voted?
    – user102566
    Commented Nov 27, 2014 at 17:18

3 Answers 3

Reset to default
3

In your case probably the

mdfind

will do great job.

It is not a GUI but a Terminal command, and it will search everywhere and everything.

Once found you can triple click on the line (to select it) and Right Click and use the "Reveal in Finder".

Improve this answer
0

If you show hidden files you might be able to search for them via spotlight. Most drives should be indexed (as long as their HFS+ formatted I believe)

Improve this answer
0

I've been trying to find some way to reconfigure Spotlight or some third party tool (that's Spotlight-quick or Everything-quick) to find hidden files, like those in ~/.ssh, for some time now. The only thing I've found that works so far is GoToFile, if you remove the exclusions from the scan parameters.

Improve this answer

You must log in to answer this question.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged .