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I think you never actually used the mdfind search, only the bastardized version that is now available as Spotlight. That interface used to be good, now it’s so

by toxik 3y ago

I think you never actually used the mdfind search, only the bastardized version that is now available as Spotlight. That interface used to be good, now it’s so bad and slow I don’t know why they let this happen. But try mdfind with filenames, it is incredibly fast. Also for file content searches it is very fast also.

mytec 3y ago
I tried a quick search between mdfind, bfs, and find to locate all README.md files in my home directory. bfs and find both found 2930 files and took 8.5s and 47.5s respectively. mdfind took 0.1s but found only 2400 files.
eviks 3y ago
so what's the query to find a file anywhere on my hard drive, including hidden folders/files?