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RE: im about to find some files



>>The first time I got on a mac, I couldn't even figure out how to find a file or the hard-drive. 
 >>  I'm wasting time just FINDING things...  
 
many mac users complain that the one thing ruining an otherwise reasonably pleasant user-experience, & the one achilles' heel of the mac os, is & has been for many years, the finder.
there's even a forum called FTFF, fix the f finder.
 
when I stumbled on this, it was because I was sure there must be a utility for mac os that lets you search for files by the same criteria as the search tool in windows. in particular, I was getting fed up of losing disc space to things like AVI captures made in error while using final-cut or even i-movie. these apps specialise in hiding big chunks of media in "project files", making it diffcult to clean out the hard drive without destroying metadata.
 
I bought a copy of pathfinder & now the mac behaves like a windows machine. :-)   I mean I can search for stuff by size, by date, by when it was modified..... so in addition to having parallels & w2k on it, I now have a search-utility that can find files in both OSs.
 
well, it works for me.
 
d.