EasyFind

Miscellaneous Needful things
1

[Big USB drive plugs into my airport and thus provides storage for my home network, with wired and wireless connections :smiley: ]

  1. How do I ensure EasyFind searches this location ?

(I have failed to find items in a .pdf that I know exist :frowning: )

  1. Does EasyFind search on Spotlight comments ? :bulb:
2

Choose your USB drive volume in EasyFind’s location pop-up menu. EasyFind is a simple find file tool and searches the contents of the raw files but does not search Spotlight comments, we’re afraid.

3

I have an encrypted disk image (sparsebundle) that I keep important pdf files in. When I mount the image and use easyfind to search for specific text, it does not find the text. Am i doing something wrong OR can files (pdf) not be searched if they are housed in an encrypted image? The files have all been OCRed.

4

Basically only the contents of plain text files (like HTML/XML, source codes, scripts etc.) are supported. Add the extension .pdf to the settings (see drawer) and it might or might not work.

5

It is unfortunate that EasyFind doesn’t search PDF files, especially since the following statement is on the application description:

Perhaps it now supports searching PDF contents.