Find File

[ovalking]

Grab Find File from OS8, then put it in the Apple Extras folder of OS9.

Now Command F brings up Find File instead of that Sherlock nonsense!

Totally unintuitive, but a nice result.

[IIO]

i am not too fond of find file and i always had sherkock desinstalled anyway - but nice find with the keyboard command. sometimes downgrades are the best upgrades.

[GaryN]

I may regret asking, but just what is so awful about Sherlock as a file finder?  Ignoring all of the other "channels" that only half worked for a couple of weeks way back when, it does a pretty good job finding stuff on a local drive - at least it does for me anyway. Why does everyone hate it so much?

[Protools5LEGuy]

Maybe we could benchmark both.

Ovalking, can you take find file, make a .sit and .bin out of it and attachment it here?

Do  Find File work fine on HFS+?

[MacTron]

I'm never liked Sherlock. I'm still use Norton FastFind. To be used with the System Find menu and the Apple+F key combo there is a easy ResEdit mod.

[Protools5LEGuy]

To be used with the System Find menu and the Apple+F key combo there is a easy ResEdit mod.

Maybe for Genius like you. 

[IIO]

Why does everyone hate it so much?

it is ugly, takes ages to open, and the search is extremly slow.

where sherlock needs 60 seconds to find a bunch of files, norton needs 20 seconds and haxial only 5 seconds.

and only file buddy offers a wide variety of find conditions and filters.

[IIO]

when i think about it, i originally removed it after installing the OS update because of the advertisement banner.

[IIO]

I'm never liked Sherlock. I'm still use Norton FastFind. To be used with the System Find menu and the Apple+F key combo there is a easy ResEdit mod.

thanks for reminding me that i have to hack the volume window resource bigger in this app, after i lost my copy last year.

[MDD]

I use File Buddy 

[GaryN]

Why does everyone hate it so much?

it is ugly, takes ages to open, and the search is extremly slow.
where sherlock needs 60 seconds to find a bunch of files,

Did you ever allow it to index the volume(s)?   I'll bet not…

[IIO]

sherlock requires 3 days to index my volumes and haxial about 5 minutes. ^^

[GaryN]

sherlock requires 3 days to index my volumes and haxial about 5 minutes. ^^

There's obviously something wrong that hasn't been identified. Sherlock indexed my FOUR internal MDD (6 partitions, a few hundred Gb total actual data) drives while I went to the bathroom - and I wasn't even constipated…