Re: searching a hard drive

2010-10-03 Thread Sarah Alawami
Ah yeah I get confused half the time. lol! Thanks. S On Oct 3, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > command-space can mean a few things: > > 1. Do a general search in spotlight. (this is what you are thinking of) > 2. Switch keyboard internationalization > 3. run launcher app if present. >

Re: searching a hard drive

2010-10-03 Thread Jonathan Cohn
command-space can mean a few things: 1. Do a general search in spotlight. (this is what you are thinking of) 2. Switch keyboard internationalization 3. run launcher app if present. For this reason, and also because one can not directly navigate to options to customize the search I recommended the

Re: searching a hard drive

2010-10-03 Thread Sarah Alawami
I thought that cmd option space also brings up the search but I could be mixing it up with something else. I don't use it all that often. take care. On Oct 3, 2010, at 3:28 PM, Esther wrote: > Hi Louie, > > Jonathan's answer works (sorry, I was interrupted in typing my answer; I > checked ther

Re: searching a hard drive

2010-10-03 Thread Esther
Hi Louie, Jonathan's answer works (sorry, I was interrupted in typing my answer; I checked there wasn't a reply before I started). The only thing I would add is that you might want to navigate to the hard drive (or folder on the hard drive) that you want to limit your search to between s

Re: searching a hard drive

2010-10-03 Thread Esther
Hi Louie, How do you want to do the search? You could do it in Terminal with the "find" command after moving to the a particular hard drive's folder (or the top level) with the "cd" command, or you could do this in Finder through the GUI. As I recall, you asked about searching a specifi

Re: searching a hard drive

2010-10-03 Thread Jonathan Cohn
Quick and simple. In finder: 1. command-N (new window) 2. command-shift-C (View computer) 3. command-F (search) Once you put some search items into the search screen you will find check box options on how to search. One of these should be to limit the search to the selected item. Note: there is

searching a hard drive

2010-10-03 Thread louie
Hi all, I have three hard drives connected to my Mac. I wand to just search one of these hard drives not the hole Mac. How do I do the search? Thanks for any info. louie louiem...@wavecable.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group