OSX files search sucks
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- meok
Never endingly slow. It was so fast back in os9.
Is there an alternative out there?
- laurus0
yes, it's called windows.
- meok0
yeah.. nice one
Somebody who actually know what they're talking about please?
- JazX0
hahaha laurus
- ikbenvanrijn0
use the terminal.app
- cherryBomb0
Try not to put so many damned files named the same thing on your drive?
I'll slap myself if you'd like.
- rasp0
upgrade to panther
- tfs__mag0
*buuuuuurp
- tfs__mag0
nevermind me... i'm trying to get up to 1000 posts on the pv-an.
although, if you tally up all the posts from my 4 previous usernames i probably have like 5-6K over the last year and a half or so.
- Infirm0
Just tested panther on a 733Mhz, looking for *.pdf on 180gb of HD, found 1401 items in 18 secs, then WinXP 160Gb HD 1.3GHz, 2mins 25sec to find 683 items... Panther burns...
- gavinnosler0
"Just" tested Panther? Meaning there's probably much more crap on the PC than on the Panther machine?
- brundlefly0
Panther actually is the fastest search I have ever seen, almost realtime for small searches, and for larger ie *.jpg *.eps, still really fast....especially compared to jaguar.....like 200x faster
- Mimio0
This is a stupid thread.
- sparker0
you could try using grep, slocate/locate or find in xterm.
also, macs and osx have a pretty specific architecture...if you have a messy file system or lack of organistion of your dirs and files it could take a while, sure.
but, anything done in xterm will be much faster than with the gui apps...
:)
- brandelec0
*walks through barn doors
is this where we diss macs thread?
- sparker0
i'm not dissing macs, i just with those who owned them would start to learn that they are 'unix' based now, and as so, you have a lot more freedom and power via the command line/shell.
- kpl0
can we turn this into a barnyard sodomy thread please? we haven't had one in a while.
- tfs__mag0
drama queens!
- ribit0
it does at least have a fairly usable GUI for adding in extra parameters... so maybe you could use that more effectively?
how about narrowing the search by date modified, more specific file name search ('starts with' instead of 'contains', or specific extensions).... or drag the folders where you think it is (like your main Projects folder) into the 'Search in: Specific Places' field.... all helps to narrow and speed the search...
- brundlefly0
yes, all you designers should learn unix!
Not like you don't have enough to learn with 3d apps, flash, action script, photoshop, fireworks, illy, ugh quark, html, xhtml, java script, dreamweaver, oh and wait macromedia and adobe just upgraded everything, so get off your butts, and learn some unix.
- kpl0
killall -9 drama_queens