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How do I search an external drive?

     Everytime I do a 'find' I see my external drive in the list, but when I type in what I'm looking for it only searches my internal drive and it's making me nuts.  i tried Mac help and the responses were things like

having time announced

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Double click on the drive to open its top window and then in the finder cmd+F.  It will appear in the find window.  Click it to highlight its name in the find window.

Note, it only appears to work when you allw spotlight to index the volume, i.e., it is not in the Spotlight privacy list.

I suggest using Find any File as an alternative.

Double click on the drive to open its top window and then in the finder cmd+F.  It will appear in the find window.  Click it to highlight its name in the find window.

Note, it only appears to work when you allw spotlight to index the volume, i.e., it is not in the Spotlight privacy list.

I suggest using Find any File as an alternative.

I don't understand why it works now since this has been what I've been doing... or I thought so.  Regardless, I cannot thank you enough.  I've been going nuts trying to do this.  I appreciate you quick and resolving answer.

No problem.  I think we overlapped my update of my post while you were posting.  I suggested an alternative to using the finder search machinery by using Find and File.

Thank you again.  Where is 'find any file'?

I provided the link when I first mentioned it but here it is again (in case it is not obvious the blue lettering represent clickable links).

Thanks again. You're the best.

This has also helped me - thank you so much. After a couple days of fruitless searching of external Time Machine drives with Apple's options, the app found multiple copies of the single file I needed. And it finds folders!

最后更新：2017-09-18 21:51:31

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