Kristeen, Tim gives some good information, here, and I would like to also note that this works in the Mail application and within any application with a tool bar where a search box is also present. In all of my experience, the search box is located at the very bottom of the window, so doing a VO+end (VO+shift+FN+right arrow on the laptop) will do the trick. Once you have typed your search term(s), press return, then press VO+end again. Then press VO+left arrow a couple of times, and you will hear "Path," and then "Listview." The listview is the one you want. Interact with this and you will find your search results. This was terribly confusing at first, but once you get the hang of it it is a really nice way to search your Mac. Searching for Mail messages is not quite as friendly because of the having to interact with the messages column and then the messages list, but that's the only slight inconvenience I've found.
I really hope this is helpful. Thanks, Harry On dic 10, 2012, at 9:01 p.m., Tim Kilburn <kilbur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > The best way to do this, in my opinion, would be to open the external HD, > Interact with the Toolbar within the open window, navigate over to the Search > field then enter your search text. When you do things this way, the results > will be limited to the items within the open window. So, in this case, it > will only look within that HD. If you wish to narrow them further,, simply > open the folder where you wish to look for the given search criteria then > follow the same process. > > HTH. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On 2012-12-10, at 8:45 PM, Kristeen Hughes <khwi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I want to perform a search on one of my external hard drives through >> spotlight. Is there anyway to do this, or do I have to search the whole Mac >> even though the files I want are on that external drive? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Kristeen >> >> -- >> 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. -- 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.
