THis sounds like a function for the find command in terminal... Open terminal and type:
find /VOlumes/BackUpDisk/ -name '*some*text*' -print The above will search the disk for any file that has the words 'some' and 'text' in the file name and output the resulting file. If you think TimeMachine might have multiple copies you could reduce the output to say 10 lines by adding ' | head -10 ' to the end of the above command. Best wishes, Jonathan C. Cohn jon.c.c...@gmail.com +1 *(703) 573-6956 http://www.linkedin.com/in/JCCohn On May 28, 2012, at 10:14 PM, Mark BurningHawk Baxter wrote: > Keeping in mind that I'm using Snow Leopard, is it possible to search an > entire 700GB backup drive full of Time Machine backups for a specific file > name, say, "the girl who played with fire?" I know it's there, but can't > manually search all my backup folders, because I get "no permission to read," > on a lot of them--so, how do I change this? I am the admin on this Mac and > it takes my password to copy a file in a folder WITH permission, but, for > example, the Downloads folder won't permit me to read what's in there. > > That's my questions! :D > > > • Mark BurningHawk Baxter > • AIM, Skype and Twitter: BurningHawk1969 > • MSN: burninghawk1...@hotmail.com > • My home page: > • http://MarkBurningHawk.net/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
