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Mac OS 9 Discussion => Software => Topic started by: ovalking on November 21, 2015, 02:18:56 PM

Title: Find File
Post by: ovalking on November 21, 2015, 02:18:56 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Find File
Post by: IIO on November 21, 2015, 02:37:25 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Find File
Post by: GaryN on November 21, 2015, 03:50:59 PM: 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?
Title: Re: Find File
Post by: Protools5LEGuy on November 22, 2015, 01:27:17 AM: 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+?
Title: Re: Find File
Post by: MacTron on November 22, 2015, 08:59:00 AM: 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.
Title: Re: Find File
Post by: Protools5LEGuy on November 22, 2015, 05:23:04 PM: Quote from: MacTron on November 22, 2015, 08:59:00 AM
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. ;D
Title: Re: Find File
Post by: IIO on November 23, 2015, 06:53:06 AM: Quote from: GaryN on November 21, 2015, 03:50:59 PM
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.
Title: Re: Find File
Post by: IIO on November 23, 2015, 06:55:15 AM: when i think about it, i originally removed it after installing the OS update because of the advertisement banner.
Title: Re: Find File
Post by: IIO on November 24, 2015, 05:48:37 AM: Quote from: MacTron on November 22, 2015, 08:59:00 AM
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.
Title: Re: Find File
Post by: MDD on November 24, 2015, 07:44:00 AM: I use File Buddy ;D
Title: Re: Find File
Post by: GaryN on November 24, 2015, 04:23:30 PM: Quote from: IIO on November 23, 2015, 06:53:06 AM
Quote from: GaryN on November 21, 2015, 03:50:59 PM
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…
Title: Re: Find File
Post by: IIO on November 24, 2015, 05:11:07 PM: sherlock requires 3 days to index my volumes and haxial about 5 minutes. ^^
Title: Re: Find File
Post by: GaryN on November 24, 2015, 05:24:57 PM: Quote from: IIO on November 24, 2015, 05:11:07 PM
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…