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First, you can view an Inspector window for a selected file or folder by pressing Command-Option-I. HoudahSpot also lets you look at the files you’ve found in a few different ways. In HoudahSpot, you just type text into the Filter box to modify your search results type a new filtering word, and you’ll instantly see the results list change based on what you’ve typed. You can do this in a Finder search, as well, but doing so requires you to add criteria to your search. By default, this Filter field filters on item name however, click on the magnifying glass in the Filter field and you can tell HoudahSpot to exclude matching file names, or include or exclude items based on an entered file path. mov into the Filter box, and HoudahSpot will show me only those files with a name containing. mov (QuickTime) files in the results, I can just type. With my large file search, for instance, if I want to find all the. Once you’re looking at the results of a search, you can use a Filter field to further limit your results. So, for example, to run my file-size query from any application, I first press the global HoudahSpot shortcut, then press Command-1, the shortcut I’ve assigned to the file-size query. HoudahSpot also includes a global hot key (Control-Command-Right Arrow, by default) to activate or switch to HoudahSpot from any application. The Limit section is used to limit the matches found by HoudahSpot based on date created, date modified, or date opened for example, the 1000 Most Recently Opened items or the 50 Least Recently Modified items. Exclude lets you list directories to exclude from the search for example, you could specify your home folder as the Where, but then exclude anything in Movies. The Where section lets you specify on which files and folders your search will be performed you can choose from pre-defined values in a pop-up menu or pick your own location using the Other option. The What section is used to build your query, and works much the same as using a Spotlight search in the Finder. The left side of the HoudahSpot window shows four different input areas-What, Where, Exclude, and Limit.

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The other thing I like about HoudahSpot 2 is that it provides easy access to the full power of the Spotlight engine. This is more flexibility than the Finder has ever offered, and it can be very useful when running searches on some of the less-mainstream Spotlight operators.

So, for example, if you search for images with an Exposure Time greater than one second, you can add Exposure Time as a column in the results list and sort on that field. Choose More Columns from that same contextual menu, and you can add any Spotlight search field as a column. Add the Size column, and then click on that column, and your results are now sorted and displayed by the size of each item.īut that’s just the tip of the iceberg. After running a HoudahSpot search, Control-click on any column and you can choose to add Created, File Path, and Size columns using the contextual menu that appears. The first thing about HoudahSpot 2 that caught my eye was its ability to solve the “no customization” issue with Spotlight searches.

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