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Does anyone know of a good Mac version of this?
by edanm 7y ago
Does anyone know of a good Mac version of this?
- fragmede 7y agoSpotlight is built in, but Alfred’s also a good one.
- dmytroi 7y agoI was looking for Everything for Mac and tbh I can't say Spotlight is even close. Sure Spotlight works great for apps and files in ~/Documents/, but I find it failing when I'm trying to find some obscure file in /Library/ or with-in Xcode SDK's. Is Alfred good in this sense?
- edanm 7y agoI used to use Alfred for this, but it's not really the same as Everything. I'm not sure why - something about the speed, results or maybe just the interface itself.
- sk5t 7y agoSome of the Windows tools use the NTFS / USN change journal for very fast access to metadata without traipsing across the rest of the filesystem. I dunno if APFS has such a thing? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USN_Journal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USN_Journal
- thirdsun 7y agoI’m using Alfred and you can add locations to search in, but I’m pretty sure you can also do that for Spotlight. It shouldn’t be a problem either way.
- iamuser4 7y agoI'm a long time user of quicksilver. Open source. Long time loyal users swear by its ux for efficiency. Development has slowed down recently, but it still runs great for me. https://qsapp.com/index.php https://qsapp.com/index.php
- norswap 7y agoNope, and I've been searching. The issue with the spotlight engine that everyone uses is that it excludes "hidden" directories and in particular every dot file and dot directory.