Re: Searching a specific folder for a specific file type on the mac

2020-02-16 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Hello, I was doing this with command-F while in a finder window. Once you have a selector picked, you should be able to find a radio button group to select entire computer, home directory or current folder. Jonathan Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Feb 15, 2020, at 10:27 PM,

Re: Searching a specific folder for a specific file type on the mac

2020-02-16 Thread 'Kristeen Hughes' via MacVisionaries
Thanks for this. Kristeen On Feb 15, 2020, at 10:55 PM, 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries wrote: In the folder, do a VO left which should land you on the Kind button. This groups the different file types. .zip would likely then be the last group in that folder. >From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient

Re: Searching a specific folder for a specific file type on the mac

2020-02-15 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
In the folder, do a VO left which should land you on the Kind button. This groups the different file types. .zip would likely then be the last group in that folder. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true?

Re: Searching a specific folder for a specific file type on the mac

2020-02-15 Thread 'Kristeen Hughes' via MacVisionaries
The problem I have is restricting it to a specific folder. If I use command+spacebar, I can't do this, but it doesn't seem to work if I do the command=option+f command either. How do you just get it to look in the fokder you are in currently? Kristeen On Feb 15, 2020, at 9:39 PM, Jonathan Coh

Re: Searching a specific folder for a specific file type on the mac

2020-02-15 Thread Jonathan Cohn
If you type "zip" into the search field and then press down arrow a couple of times you should find a menu item for zip archive. Also note that unlike Unix and Google searches, apple meta data searches can accept partial words. HTH! Best wishes, Jonathan Cohn > On Feb 14, 20

Re: Searching a specific folder for a specific file type on the mac

2020-02-15 Thread 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries
You can always use the find command. For example, if I'm in my home directory and I want to search the Downloads directory for zip files: Find Downloads -name "*.zip" On 2/14/20, 23:20, "Barry Hadder" wrote: 1. Command-f in the desired folder. When you do this, focus will be on the sea

RE: Searching a specific folder for a specific file type on the mac

2020-02-15 Thread Simon A Fogarty
Try using *.zip for your search, I must admit though I can't remember what they use in unix as a wild card anymore, Windows uses * though and it should have a similar state in what you are using. -Original Message- From: 'Kristeen Hughes' via MacVisionaries Sent: Saturday, 15 February

Re: Searching a specific folder for a specific file type on the mac

2020-02-14 Thread Barry Hadder
1. Command-f in the desired folder. When you do this, focus will be on the search field in the toolbar. 2. Stop interacting with the toolbar and move vo to the search section. Make sure that the radio button option to search the folder is selected. 3. Move vo to the search criteria. If you

Re: Searching a specific folder for a specific file type on the mac

2020-02-14 Thread 'E.T.' via MacVisionaries
If you meant to type *.zip it did not come though that way. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 2/14/2020 7:28 PM, aussiebroadband.com.au wrote: hi Christine Michelle Stevens here, try *ζip in th

Re: Searching a specific folder for a specific file type on the mac

2020-02-14 Thread aussiebroadband.com.au
hi Christine Michelle Stevens here, try *ζip in the search box. Michelle Sent from my iPhone > On 15 Feb 2020, at 1:36 pm, 'Kristeen Hughes' via MacVisionaries > wrote: > > I have been trying to figure out a way to do this for awhile now, since they > changed the search function. I