EasyFind 3.9 review

EasyFind is an alternative to or supplement of Spotlight and finds files, folders or contents in any file without the need for indexing.

License: Freeware OS: Mac OS X File size: 0K Developer: DEVONtechnologies LLC Price: $0.00 Updated: 11 May 2006

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EasyFind is an alternative to or supplement of Spotlight and finds files, folders or contents in any file without the need for indexing. This is especially useful if you are tired of slow or impossible indexing, outdated or corrupted indices or if you are just looking for features missing in the Finder or Spotlight.

Here are some key features of "EasyFind":
Boolean operators, wildcards, phrases
No indexing, search immediately
Finds invisible files and files inside packages (which Spotlight doesn't search)
Displays the location of each file in a separate column
Provides contextual menus and services
Supports drag-and-drop
Very responsive due to multithreading
Uses little memory.

What's New:
NEW Universal binary for Intel and PowerPC Macs.
NEW EasyFind requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
NEW EasyFind normalizes the various Unicode representations of characters to make searching for file and folder names with umlauts, accents or diacretical characters more reliable.
NEW It is possible to select invisible folders.
Improved Extended set of default file extensions/types for content searching.
Improved More versatile Services menu commands supporting more input types (e.g., it is now possible to use this service in the Finder to easily search in the folder of the frontmost Finder window).
Improved Faster matching of wildcards.
Improved Code updated for Mac OS X 10.4.x and future Mac OS X releases.
Fixed Bug of matching certain wildcards (e.g. "*?*word") fixed.