1. EASYFIND
Thank you for using EasyFind. EasyFind is an alternative to or supplement of Spot-
light and finds files, folders or contents in any file without the need for indexing
and therefore immediately. This is especially useful if you are tired of slow or im-
possible indexing, outdated or corrupted indexes, or if you are just looking for
missing features like case sensitive or insensitive search, Boolean operators and
wildcards or searching for phrases.
In addition, EasyFind uses multithreading and is therefore very responsive even
with multiple search processes running, provides contextual menus and Services
and displays the location of each item in a separate column for a better overview.
Finally EasyFind uses little memory, supports drag-and-drop and the clipboard
and finds optionally invisible items or items within packages.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.
INSTALLATION/UPDATING
Copy EasyFind to the Applications folder or any other directory you have access
to. To make the Services work, log out and log in again after you have started
EasyFind at least once. EasyFind must be placed into the main Applications
folder or ~/Applications to work.
USAGE
Start EasyFind using the Finder or the Services menu (EasyFind > Find In
Path… or EasyFind > Find Selection…) within Cocoa applications or Carbon ap-
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2. plications supporting Services, enter your keywords, select the desired volume or
folder and press the Return or Enter key or click on the search button (with a
magnifying glass on it). You may also open additional search windows in the
meantime, run multiple processes at once, or stop the currently running search
(once you’ve started a search, the search button becomes a ‘stop’ button until the
process has finished).
EasyFind displays all found items immediately so it's possible to drag-and-drop
an item, e.g. onto Finder windows, the dock or other applications, even while the
search is going on (vertical motion begins a multiple file selection, horizontal mo-
tion starts drag-and-drop). Or select Open in the File menu to open one or more
files with the appropriate application — or just double click on them —, Reveal In
Finder to open the enclosing folder in the Finder, Destroy to delete the items (af-
ter a warning) immediately, Move To Trash to trash them (without a warning) or
Show Info to display the Finder’s info panel for the selected items.
You may also use contextual menus by right-clicking or Control-clicking on se-
lected items to perform these actions or on the column headers of the file list to
customize which columns are shown.
To preview a file, press the Space bar. This opens the QuickLook head-up display
(Mac OS X 10.5 ‘Leopard’ or later only).
SEARCH OPTIONS
EasyFind offers a number of options that define how the search is conducted. Use
them to search only within a selected folder, use Boolean operators to refine your
search, or search the contents of the files, not only their names.
• Select the folder or volume to search in. This pop-up includes all mounted vol-
umes, all visible folders within the root directory (‘/’), within your home direc-
tory, on your desktop, your favorites, and all folders inside the directory ‘~/
Library/EasyFind’. EasyFind resolves aliases while initializing this menu (but
not while searching) and automatically removes duplicate folders. If you want
to extend this menu, just add or remove items to EasyFind's user-defined direc-
tory (‘~/Library/Application Support/EasyFind’). You can also drag folders from
the Finder to the EasyFind window to set it as search destination.
• Look for file and folder names, only file names, only folder names, or file con-
tents.
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3. • Find files with all keywords (All Words), with at least one keyword (‘Any
Word’), find exact phrases (Phrase), or use EasyFind’s Boolean search operators
and wildcards (Boolean+Wildcards). For the available wildcards and Boolean
operators, see below.
• Find case insensitive, find also invisible files and folders, include package con-
tents in search, and sort by name, date, size or location (ascending and de-
scending).
• Check Ignore Umlauts to make EasyFind treat, e.g., ‘ü’ and ‘u’ the same; check
Fuzzy to find also slightly different spelled terms. Both are only available in
Boolean+Wildcards mode.
• Settings for content searching: Define or turn on and off up to six different lists
of file extensions and HFS types (usually only plain text files, each extension or
HFS type separated by commas, HFS types within single quotes like ‘TEXT’)
used for content searching. As EasyFind uses no indexing, this is necessary to
improve performance, but it's also possible to scan all files.
WILDCARDS
Wildcard Function
* Matches none, one, or multiple characters
[a-b] Matches a range of characters
[a|b|c|…] Matches a choice of characters
[abc…]
[^…] Excludes characters
? Matches exactly one character
Example Result
Demo* Everything starting with ‘Demo’ (Prefix)
*ing Everything ending with ‘ing’ (Suffix)
NS*.h Everything starting with ‘NS’ and ending with ‘.h’ (e.g.
all Cocoa header files)
?ouse All words with five characters and ending with ‘ouse’
(e.g. ‘mouse’ or ‘house’)
[a-ez]* Everything starting with ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’, ‘d’, ‘e’, or ‘z’
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4. Example Result
[d-fk-j]*[gh] Everything starting with ‘d’, ‘e’, ‘f ’, ‘k’, ‘i’, or ‘j’, and end-
ing with ‘g’ or ‘h’
[^be]* Everything not starting with ‘b’ or ‘e’
BOOLEAN OPERATORS
The syntax of EasyFind’s Boolean operators is identical to the one of
DEVONagent and DEVONthink.
Operator Function
AND, BUT, +, & Logical And
OR, | Logical Or
NOT, -, ! Logical Not
~ Proximity to match partial words/substrings, too (other-
wise only complete words are accepted). Placed in front
of the search word
XOR, EOR, ^ Logical Exclusive Or
NEAR Matches words within a range of ten words
NEAR/n Matches words within a range of n words
AFTER, BEFORE, Matches words appearing before or after each other. Can
NEXT be combined with /n, see NEAR/n.
() Parenthesis, groups parts of the query logically
"" Phrases, find exactly the string in the quotes
TIPS AND TRICKS
• Dropping a folder onto a search window uses this folder as the search location.
• You can copy selected results to the clipboard and insert them into other appli-
cations (e.g. TextEdit).
• Size and order of columns, sorting of results and size of windows are all persis-
tent (for each window on its own).
• To move selected results to a particular folder, drag the results from EasyFind
to the Finder.
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5. • To copy selected results to a particular folder, drag the results from EasyFind
to the Finder while pressing the Option key.
• To create aliases of selected results, drag the results from EasyFind to the
Finder while pressing the Command and Option keys.
• Pressing Command-dot cancels a running search, too.
CUSTOMIZATION
If you want to remove unnecessary Services or change the menus or shortcuts,
you have to edit the file ‘info.plist’ within the EasyFind package (use contextual
menus in the Finder to show the contents).
• Delete elements of the array ‘NSServices’ to remove unnecessary Services.
• Change the ‘default’ element of ‘NSKeyEquivalent’ dictionaries to adapt short-
cuts.
• Change the ‘default’ element of ‘NSMenuItem’ dictionaries to adapt the name
or structure of menu items.
On Mac OS X 10.6 ‘Snow Leopard’ use the Services Preferences instead, which you
can open directly from the Services menu.
CREDITS
Italian localization by Vincenzo Boiano.
CONTACT
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