OS X V10.7 Lion :: Search For Words In Documents In It?
Jun 16, 2012
Lately I have downloaded a lot of files from Google Drive, and I'm trying to sort a lot of documents (262 exactly) by finding a set of numbers and letters that only one kind of document has.
For example, I'm trying to find the documents that have "5R-ET1" to see which documents has those set of letters inside the documents to sort them in a diffrent folder.Is there something in the Finder that can allow me to do this, or is there like this program which compares documents that fits my use?
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Aug 27, 2014
Sometimes titles do not match the content. If I have a bunch of files with similar title, i.e. Chapter 1, 2, etc., but I want to find the chapter with the jabberwock in it, I used to be able to type "jabberwock" and it would come up in my search window. Now it's only finding titles. I have so many files on my puter that it's taking me forever to find important documents. Where did they hide this feature??? Tearing my hair out.
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Mac mini, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
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May 20, 2012
On my mac just like every other computer in this world it has a url bar. If I mis-spell something in the url bar it searches it using some bad search engine called optimum. I wanted to change it so I would automatically be searched with google instead of optimum.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Dec 7, 2009
Whenever I'm in a folder which has pdf documents inside and a search a word in the search field in the finder the results are a total mess. It sometimes finds the words inside the pdfs and sometimes it doesn't. What is worse is that whenever I open a pdf with preview, it almost NEVER finds the word I'm looking. It just shows the loading sign and never return results.
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Feb 26, 2009
I have a lot of scanned documents in pdf and jpg formant. Is there any application that can search for me in them? Evernote does search but you need to upload it to the internet.
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Sep 11, 2014
On my macbook pro which is using mountain lion, by safari search engine preferences is set to google, but when i enter a search term it defaults to bing. Only noticed this problem after downloading adobe flash player for what it's worth.
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8)
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Sep 7, 2014
I just recently purchase the larger iMac and and I was told I can make things on the screen larger so that I won't have to strain my eyes. I just can't figure out how to do so. I know how to work it for Safari but the text on the left side of the Mail is way too small. Also where it says File Edit View Etc at the top also needs to be larger. My eyes hurt after 10 minutes because I am straining to see.
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)
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Jun 21, 2012
I have iMac (2011) with OS X Lion 10.7.4, and I noticed that name of my hard drive has been changing on strange letters or some words chosen by random. It's quite strange. I have other apple computers and I have never experienced such things. I can't find any logical explanation of this "activity". Sometimes it happens after sleeping mode, sometimes there is no activity from my side or from OS. This is definitely not because of "accidentally pressed an icon of my HD and then pressed some keys" issue.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Mar 19, 2012
I just upgraded to Mac OSX Lion and can't attach documents to my hotmail.
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Feb 23, 2012
I am unable to use the search window on the right to get results when Google is selected as the search engine.I type in a search term and I am directed to a blank google search page. I have to type in the search term again, then I see a list of "hits". But when
I click on one of these hits I am not directed to the URL displayed. I have quit out of Safari and relaunched. I have rebooted my Mac. Neither changes the problem... This is a Google problem: I have the same symptoms when I use Safari on Windows XP. When I switch the search engine to Bing, the problems go away, for both platforms Has Google been hacked? Is this a Google attack on Safari?  How can I enter GoGoDuck as a search engine choice? Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Jul 27, 2010
Is there a keyboard shortcut for switching search engines in Safari's search box (I believe Chrome had this feature before they got rid of the search box in the latest version)? The arrow on the left-hand side is cumbersome.
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Mar 10, 2012
While searching on Google and viewing a page, the search box clears when I return to the search list using the back button.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)
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Jun 21, 2012
In the Google search box in Safari how do you delete 1 item and leave the rest of the search list intact?Â
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Intel Imac, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
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Dec 21, 2009
Hum I dont know how or why this changed havent told Safari to change it. is there a way to set it back to safari? Only thing I have downloaded is Makethewebbetter for a plug in for facebook dont think that changed it (its a app for elfyourself)
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Feb 24, 2010
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Jun 19, 2014
I have a 2000+ page PDF, and I need to search the PDF and print those pages that have a specific search term. The last search I did turned up 617 pages, I would not be economical to have to go through and manually input every page to print them. I've tried every method I could think of with preview. I've tried Adobe. I've tried PDF Reader, PDF Reader X,PDF Reader ++Â ...
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Mar 28, 2012
solution to the bug discussed here where mounted SMB shares cannot be searched using the Finder? Â
I installed a clean copy of Lion and cannot search any mounted SMB volume from a QNAP NAS or a Windows 7 share. way to search these volumes quickly?
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May 18, 2012
My addressBook will not search..Do I need to reset the dataBase thingie or somethingie else?
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Apr 25, 2012
I keep trying to search something and every-time it just freezes then goes to the destop...
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), iOS 5.1
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Apr 16, 2012
Save and also save as menus disappeared from Lion Preview file menu. How can I save pdf documents?
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jan 31, 2012
Since I upgraded my operating system I the search option is very slow and does not work in MS word
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ms Word , Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Feb 23, 2012
I have set up my mac at work to connect to the smb network, yet I cannot search the shared folders via the finder. I will pre-empt the apologists here, thanks, I don't want to hear you point of view about how I don't need this fuction. I don't want to hear how os x uses and index and apple are wise to disable it in network drives (yet they are not wise enough to implement any other way to search said drives...). I want to put my point across that they better fix it soon.  I also want to hear other people who 've run into this problem and if they 've found any work arounds. There's a free app called easyfind but I am not that happy with it, and there's also some convoluted terminal work around that has to be repeated every time os x starts from what I 've been reading.Â
I will also be submitting feedback to apple. Ios looking fancy artifacts are all good and well (I dislike them, but I am not that much bothered) but what about some real functionality in core os services such as the finder? Does any one at the os x team really think it's acceptable in 2012 that your mac connects to a network drive in an office and can't search it? I am using a folder in the network to store my work and I can't search that folder to quickly find something to show to a colleague? What do you expect me to do copy it over to my local drive, use a third party app to sync it to the network, and search my local drive instead?
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Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Feb 23, 2012
Why Preview cannot search phrases in PDF? i.e, I want to search the phrase "Apple Macbook Air", but Preview show the result for "Apple" & "Macbook" & "Air". It's not accurate at all!
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mar 29, 2012
I can't work out how to search for images where the image's width is equal to the height. This is regardless of the actual number of pixels.Â
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Apr 5, 2012
I have tried everything to fix Spotlight search with no luck. I have deleted the index file in the root directory with out success. and tried several other ways of tring to re index my machine. As you can see from my screen shots. There is a file called Apps on the desktop. Yest when I search the desktop it cant find it.
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May 19, 2012
That's my question, I'm trying to search to find folders larger than a certain size, and when I select "file size" it doesn't give any results, so obviously it doesn't work.Â
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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May 22, 2012
if I find a 'lost' document using 'search', how do I retrieve it to file away in another folder?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Jun 6, 2012
I am no longer able to use Search in Mail. When I type anything in, I get zero results. I am almost certain it worked previously. Am I missing a setting somewhere?
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Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Jun 8, 2012
How to best use the Spotlight and or Command+F find/search feature unsion Lion 10.7? Specifically, I am looking to filter the search to "Name Contains". I know if I Com+F, I can apply that filter with a couple more clicks. And Spotlight can initiate the search. The problem with this method is Show All in Finder leaves no way to apply the Name Contains filter unless I go back and edit the results, then I can drop down and select the filter.
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Jun 12, 2012
I have a folder that won't show up in a finder search, including all its contents. I relaunched finder, but didn't work anyway.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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