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Find 'non-findable' files
Authored by: VSB on Jan 06, '09 03:15:58PM

Very useful app! Easy to use and fast.

Thanks!

I'd been trying to get rid of some Symantec Norton Antivirus (crappy software that just wont allow itself to be uninstalled) files which did not appear in Spotlight and kept posting system mail (in Terminal) periodically. Your app allowed me to find 4 files, 2 of them root owned and another 2 (user) that always reappeared after I'd deleted them. I opened Terminal, wrote sudo rm -rf and dragged the files FindAnyFile had discovered into Terminal (one at a time), so that the right path appeared.
It seems to have worked!
Now I'll follow djfiander's tip, man the command "find", and try to learn how to explore its full potential.



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