![]() Their paid app Houdahspot is also very useful. Select that, and now you’re searching for PNG files that have today’s date on them.Īn alternative is to download a free tool like Tembo, found at You would take the previously mentioned step, but then add ‘today’ to the Search field, and it will give you a Date option called “Today”. In summary, the app will automatically arrange folders at the top, arrange items by name when in icon view, Collapse all, Show hidden items, refresh, copy file path, create a new file, copy or move a file to another. Let’s say you’re looking for a PNG image modified today. XtraFinder is a free Mac app that adds these and other features to both the Finder menu and a file’s right-click context menu. Of course, you can now add other search attributes to the search, to help refine things. Just select that, and you’ve got the equivalent of ‘*.png’. One of those will be in a section called “Kinds” and the available option will be “Portable Network Graphics Image”. You will then be presented with a dropdown of options. If you want to find all PNG files, just type ‘png’ into the Spotlight search box (either Spotlight in the main system menubar, or in the Find field in Finder (top right corner). As you have discovered, Spotlight doesn’t deal with the * wildcard.īut there is another way. Here are snapshots of the XtraFinder preferences:Īll search functionality in OS X is performed via Spotlight. Middle-click to open folder in new window or new tab.Display folder item count in List view.“Copy Path”, “Show Hidden Items”, “Hide Desktop”, “Refresh”, “New File”, “Copy to”, “Move to”, “New Terminal Here”, “Make Symbolic Link”, “Contents”, “Select…”, ….Here’s a run down of XtraFinder features: XtraFinder add Tabs and other features to Mac OS X Finder I have ceased using TotalFinder and switched to XtraFinder. It’s free, and it works fine according to my use of it. ![]() If you’ve not updated to Mavericks (I haven’t) and you don’t want to dish out money for TotalFinder, here’s a great alternative. Of course Mavericks has tabs built right in (Apple finally caught on). It added things like tabs, and other handy features. ![]() In that post I recommended TotalFinder as a great addition to Finder. Some time ago I wrote a popular post on Finder replacements or alternatives on OS X.
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