Search app mac os

Find Any File (FAF‪)‬ 4+

Search for files anywhere

Thomas Tempelmann

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Search Beyond The Spotlight

Unhappy with Spotlight because it does not find files that you know to be there? Use FAF to find every file on your disks, including those usually hidden. By file name, date, size, and even plain text content (but not text in Word and PDF files, see note below).

• Recover a file whose name you partially remember?
• See what files got changed in the past 5 minutes?
• Find all the large files on your disk?
• Uninstall software that leaves files in hidden places where Spotlight doesn’t look?
• Search with regular expressions?

Find Any File (FAF) is the perfect tool for these tasks.

You can even search on disks that are not indexed by Spotlight, including network server (NAS) volumes.

Find Any File can find files that Spotlight doesn’t, e.g. those inside bundles and packages, and inside system folders that are usually excluded from Spotlight search.

Contrary to Spotlight, it does not use a database but instead searches the data on disk directly. This lets you search for file properties such as name, creation and modification dates, file size, even plain text inside files.

Another useful feature is its hierarchical results view (see screenshots). It lets you view the found items within their respective folders, making it often much easier to browse through 100s of found items.

•• Note about text search ••

FAF can not search file content other than plain (unformatted and uncompressed) text — and even that is comparatively slow, so don’t expect this to be a good replacement for Spotlight when you need to find text in your documents.

For searching text in Mails, Word, Excel, PDF and similar files, Spotlight is still the best tool (whose results can be enhanced with Tembo and HoudahSpot, also available in the App Store).

•• Here’s what users say about FAF ••

“FAF goes where Spotlight’s can’t easily reach.”

“As the administrator for about 50 school Macs, I often need to look for some file misplaced by a novice or, while troubleshooting a system, I often need to search for obscure operating system files. Find Any File is in my arsenal of tools when things files or folders go astray.”

“I use it when I want to find a specific kind of file or to see and eliminate or compare the double and redundant files. I surely use it 4-5 times a week.”

“I keep FAF as an icon in the toolbar of every Finder window. When I have to actually find something, I use FAF instead of the Finder.”

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Mactracker 4+

Ian Page

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Description

Mactracker provides detailed information on every Apple Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, and iPad ever made, including items such as processor speed, memory, graphic cards, supported OS versions, price, storage, and expansion options. Also included is information on early Apple systems, Newton, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Apple accessories, audio, displays, printers, scanners, storage, Wi-Fi products, and operating systems.

What’s New

— Adds details on latest OS releases
— Updates Support Status for Apple’s latest Vintage and Obsolete products
— Other minor changes and additions

Ratings and Reviews

amazing app. love it!

this is my go to app since it came out to track various Apple products. i highly recommend it. it’s really great.
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idk why you guys removed the option to play the startup sound by tapping the icon of the product like for the older mac sounds and the later mac sounds. i did find it was removed once before a while back, i’m guessing by accident, because it eventually came back. i love that little secret. please bring it back.

also, would you guys please consider adding all of the Apple watch bands to the app. i have a hard time tracking all the Apple official watch bands & links, including Nike & Hermès bands, in all their respective colors. i think it would be an awesome addition to the app. other than that, you guys did a fantastic job. thanks for all the hard work!

Amazing app I have loved for years!

So, let’s get this out of the way. The app is amazing. It is LOADED with info for pretty much everything Apple has ever released. I see people complain about new products are not included quickly. Seriously? You’re complaining that the free app you’ve downloaded isn’t updated, for free, quickly enough? My response is to ask how much THEIR time is worth. Ian will get it updated eventually, but the app is always a bit behind because Apple keeps releasing new products. For things in the app, the amount of info is incredible. It’s saved me many times over the years. Anyway, enjoy the app and marvel in how well Ian is doing to get this info out there. And just maybe, go to his website and donate some money for this free and wonderful app! 🙂

Great Reference

Have used this as a reference for a few years now. It’s excellent for comparing Apple products and seeing detailed information that is not readily available to the average user. I found it exceptionally useful when buying a used Mac two years ago since I could find the computer with the specs I needed and match that computer’s product number to the product numbers given by sellers.

And of course, for any Apple lover or obsessionato, this is a must have! Aside from its practical applications, this app provides hours of fun just browsing the content of Apple’s rich history in tech.

App Privacy

The developer, Ian Page , indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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The Unarchiver 4+

Open any archive in seconds

MacPaw Inc.

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The Unarchiver is a small and easy to use program that can unarchive many different kinds of archive files. It will open common formats such as Zip, RAR (including v5), 7-zip, Tar, Gzip and Bzip2. It will also open many older formats, such as StuffIt, DiskDoubler, LZH, ARJ and ARC. It will even open other kinds of files, like ISO and BIN disc images, some Windows .EXE installers. The list is actually much longer — see the program homepage for the full list.

The Unarchiver also tries to detect and correctly handle the filename encoding in the archives it opens, allowing you to open files from every part of the world without getting garbled filenames.

The Unarchiver aims to be the only unarchiving program you will ever need, and to stay out of your way.

Also, if you need to open archives on your iPad or iPhone, look for «Archives» on the App Store, or go to https://theunarchiver.com/archives. It is based on The Unarchiver, and lets you easily handle Archives on iOS!

What’s New

Fixed:
• Minor bugs and known crashes

Ratings and Reviews

Until this version 3.1.2 it was a 5 star now maybe 4

Then they had a problem with 3.11.2, which they think they fixed in 3.11.3. However there are more problems with version 3.11.3. Before the last two versions, I could choose ‘Compress “some directory”’ from the finder menu, and then few minutes later I could uncompress it by using “The Unarchiver”. Now, randomly I get a notofication about the encoding the compressed file uses. So i am temporarily using command line tools to do the operations. BTW, there seems to be another bug that comes up if you select more than about 250 files from Finder and invoke “The Unarchiver”. Then somehow “The Unarchiver” memory gets corrupted, and the menus no longer work(e.g. Quit button disappears.) and the program hangs. Have to force quit it externally. I should mention Xee 3.5.3(marketed by the same company) inherited a bug in the new release, that it can no longer reliably read .cbr and .cbz(or .rar or .zip) files reliably either. Some pages show up as noise, where as other programs(like Comic Reader). So on Xee I rolled back to 3.5.2

Poor error handling

Been using this for years. The app works fine most of the time, but when something is wrong with the archive, the app doesn’t give anything resembling useful information about the error. It just basically tells you something’s wrong. What’s wrong? No details whatsoever other than it can’t extract. When that happens, I have to turn to the unfortunately abandoned UnRarX, which has a test function which tells me what’s wrong with the archive, such as a corrupted part.

Cannot deselect file formats in Preferences

I just installed The Unarchiver, and am attempting to set its preferences. When I try to deselect a file format which I do not want The Unarchiver to expand by default, it will not allow me to do so. It pops up a dialog saying «Set another app as the default app for selected file types if you wish. In smaller print, it describes the procedure to assign default applications to specific file types.

This behavior is extremely annoying. Even if I did not already know how to assign default applications, I should not be required to do so before I can deselect a file type in The Unarchiver’s preferences. This behavior is enough to stop me from using the application. Please fix this obnoxious behavior. It is unreasonable.

App Privacy

The developer, MacPaw Inc. , indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Information

English, Arabic, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian

Supports

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Family Sharing

With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.

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Mactracker 4+

Ian Page

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Description

Mactracker provides detailed information on every Apple Macintosh, iPod, iPhone, and iPad ever made, including items such as processor speed, memory, graphic cards, supported OS versions, price, storage, and expansion options. Also included is information on early Apple systems, Newton, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Apple accessories, audio, displays, printers, scanners, storage, Wi-Fi products, and operating systems.

What’s New

— Adds details on latest OS releases
— Other minor changes and additions

Ratings and Reviews

A must have app!

(Updating the review as I wrote my orginal review years ago) This is still a must have app. It is indispensable for average/casual users and apple nerds alike. I also highly recommend downloading Ian’s iOS apps. Great to have access to this very accurate information on all your devices. Download here now and then go download on iOS. You won’t regret it.
Even if you’re a casual user (i.e. not a tech geek) you should download this app. You will find it immensely helpful (especially in times of need like repairs, resale, getting replacement parts, etc.) for identifying your exact computer or idevice. For the Apple/Mac afficiando or collector, it is an invaluable tool. It’s also fun to just take a trip down memory lane through all the many, many years of Apple products. How many products have you owned? Do you remember your first Apple II from back in the 70’s? Ian Page has done an excellent job with this app. Thank you Ian!

My Goto Reference

I’m an IT Professional and this is my goto reference app, especially for legacy equipment. Some of the key features are being able to lookup RAM on the fly, what OS X or iOS a system was shipped with, the latest iOS or OS X a device can run, as well as the all important Apple classification of «Supported, Vintage or Obsolete» Thanks so much for including build and model numbers with all of the various generations of product lines.

It’s worth installing just to take a trip down memory lane with a history lesson regarding such groundbreaking innovations as the 10th Anniversary Macintosh, The «Cube» i.e. The Power Mac G4 Cube, and especially the xserve line which I’m still heartbroken over losing.

One last thing. Get in touch with the developers of MActracker if you find this program usefull! I did.

Great reference app

This is a great reference application when it comes to Apple products (especially hardware). Now sure, something like this can easily be thrown into a web interface, but having a quick, and lightweight app to pull this kind of information is really nice. The smart categories in particular can really help speed up your search; for example, you can create a category for Macs with Coffee Lake CPUs, or all Mac models that are currently supported. Of course, you can get way more specific with category criteria, but I think the point has been made. Occasionally, there can be delays when it comes to the addition of new products, but this isn’t really a significant issue (if one at all).

App Privacy

The developer, Ian Page , indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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