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Authored by: tempel on Jan 06, '09 02:48:57PM

Yes, I have this "include system files" option enabled by default in the Finder's Find by default most of the time and happily use it. Yet, it won't list items that are explicitly excluded from Spotlight Search in the Sytem Prefs ("Privacy"), and that's what I meant with it not finding everything. A admit, though, that if Spotlight has indexed the item, it reveals them much faster than FAF usually.

What one can do in Terminal with "find" is really of no importance here. If you are comfortable withit, use it. Many of us aren't and that's who I made this tool for.

As a software developer I depend on knowing if and where a file exists. I can't depend on tools that use a separate database such as Spotlight therefore. I have written this tool for this purpose, for myself. Only recently I decided to make it public and polish it a bit because I think others find this useful, too.

I never claimed FAF to be the ultimate search tool, but it fills some gaps:
- finds some items Spotlight doesn't (e.g. on non-indexed volumes and those marked "private" for spotlight).
- has a hierarchical view which is quite helpful when you have a lot of hits. I wish Spotlight had this view, too.



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Authored by: mario_grgic on Jan 07, '09 06:19:44AM

You are a software developer who is not comfortable using the command line. WTF.



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Authored by: frgough on Jan 07, '09 07:51:55AM

I can hand-code HTML. It doesn't mean I particularly enjoy it. CLI zealots annoy the h*ll out of me.



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