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10.4: Yet another way to change the Finder's default search
Authored by: mm2270 on Jul 06, '05 11:59:24AM

Excellent hint! I just did these steps as described and it works great! This is a MUCH easier way to edit the default smart search settings, rather than going in to the plist file and editing parameters there.

Also, there's no need to use Terminal or Activity Monitor to restart the Finder. I just did a Force Quit command and relaunched it from there and all is well. My new settings show up!

Thanks.

I wonder if someone will eventually wrap up this whole procedure in a GUI that can do all this in an easy few steps? Seems like a needed app. Or maybe Apple should just give us a way to control this instead as they should have to begin with.



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10.4: Yet another way to change the Finder's default search
Authored by: Anonymous on Jul 06, '05 01:18:20PM

To find a file by something in the file name simply put the string in quotes ("string") and your search will be limited to file names only.



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10.4: Yet another way to change the Finder's default search
Authored by: hypert on Jul 06, '05 11:06:30PM

This is not quite true. I have two word docs that contain the word "heater". Searching for "heater" (with the quotes) retains the one named "heater.doc" and the one named "foo.doc". This is the same whether searching from the Spotlight pop-down in the upper-right or by invoking Cmd-F.



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