It could be several minutes as macOS matches against every one of hundreds of thousands or millions of individual files. You can include part or all of a file name in the search.If it’s the first time you’ve used sudo, macOS also warns you about the dangers of having system super powers. You enterĪnd press Return, and then enter the administrative password. Switch to superuser, which requires an administrative account.Launch Terminal, which you’ll find in Applications > Utilities.If you need to use a space, enclose the text in quotation marks, like "easy solutions". The search pattern I show below is case independent, so uppercase and lowercase letters get matched regardless of what you specify. In this example, let’s assume I’m looking for a file I know is named easysolutions.mdl, and I’m going to search on just easysolutions as the unique portion.
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The Unix find command shows the full path of matching files, wherever they exist on disk. (Find is something I’ve used for decades, and it feels like a tool designed for a computer with a teletypewriter attached.) IDG In the Terminal, a command called find can perform a comprehensive and deep search across everything, including system files and other stuff that we don’t need to interact with and macOS doesn’t readily expose to users. It also may match a lot of files you’re not interested in. There’s a way to search comprehensively through your macOS drive (or drives) using the Terminal, but I think of it as a last resort, because it involves tricky syntax and can be slow. Spotlight should let you find nearly any file you create or store in macOS with ease, but it doesn’t always work that way. He needs to remove it to avoid a compatibility problem, and no amount of Spotlight searches nor browsing through folders can find it. Macworld reader Lon has a problem finding a file on his Mac.
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