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>>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.
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