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Old 16-05-2008, 12:23 PM
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Searching by file extension in OSX
Hi Guys

I tried searching via file extension for a particular file format and it doesn't seem to find many results (for example I have about 50 .sap files on my machine but it only picked up 2 in spotlight).

I was eventually forced to search via windows explorer which allowed me to search via *.sap.

Is there any way to search this way in Mac?
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Old 16-05-2008, 12:29 PM
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Found it, don't worry.
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Old 16-05-2008, 01:16 PM
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For others who haven't:

Date: (eg: today, yesterday, 12/11/2007 [day/month/year])

example: "Date:yesterday"

Name:.sap (or any text string in the name)

Kind: (Document, PDF, anything that appears as a spotlight result heading. Also, it appears to work if you do "Kind:Xcode" will list all xcodeprojs, kindages lists all pages docs, etc).

..and these are only the ones I know about.
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Is there a complete list?
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Old 17-05-2008, 06:41 PM
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I swear I posted the link:

http://www.macosxhints.com/dlfiles/spotlight_cmds.txt

Complete list AFAIK
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