![]() Something like BBEdit crossed with HoudahSpot would be amazing. I don’t know if the effort would be worth it for them.Īs much as I like DT’s search capabilities, and I am generally satisfied, it’s actually not as powerful as others out there, so I think they’d also have some catching up to do. DT would be entering a competitive space with lots of established, excellent players. I don’t know about those kinds of files, but I’d say that Spotlight and its front ends (I especially like HoudahSpot) cover a huge swath of use cases. I therefore hope DT creates a complementary product to DTPO soon (and that I’m not the only one who wants to see such a cool new product)! We clearly need a tool suited for these searches. (ok, DTPO isn’t a substitute for Spotlight. DTPO won’t find it - even if you index your /Applications folder. Or, try to find a string “inside” a plist inside an “app” file in your /Applications folder. The other “Spotlight Front-ends” are disappointing since they don’t find files not indexed by Spotlight … and that’s a lot of them (not indexed or found, that is).įor example, try to find a Java installation on your Mac. Plus, the the company does not seem to be very responsive. Foxtrot Professional Search is an example of such a tool, but I found a serious bug in their current version (5.0.2). I’ve been looking for a long time for a real Mac search tool that would find EVERY File and find them fast. (What and where to use DTPO’s “Index” feature is somewhat confusing then.) Also, EasyFind forces you to “know” or do successive (possibly slow) searches whether you’re looking for a file name, file contents, etc.Īnd, as I was told by DT support, DTPO is not meant as a Spotlight replacement. ![]() I am wondering, given the absolute excellence of DTPO, why DevnoTechnologies (DT) doesn’t create a complementary product that will quickly search the hard drive using a custom index.Īlthough DT’s EasyFind is a suitable Spotlight replacement for (very, very) basic searches, it does not use an index and is thus so slow it can’t really be used in production contexts.
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