The existing search on macOS was almost completely useless to be fair

▲ dreamcompiler a day ago | parent [-]

Spotlight search has sucked from Day 1 of OSX. You need to use Find Any File [0] or some equivalent tool if you want to search the actual file system without being limited by Spotlight's never-properly-updated "index."

The functionality of Find Any File was built in to Mac OS 9 and earlier. It was rock-solid reliable. So of course Apple removed it and now to get reliable search you have to use a third-party tool. Or 'find' in the Terminal.

[0] https://findanyfile.app/

▲ wartywhoa23 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I desperately need something like Everything¹ for macOS!

¹https://www.voidtools.com/

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howznguyen 14 hours ago | parent [-]

Find Any File is solid, but it scans on demand, so it never quite feels like Everything. The closest I've found is Cling from lowtechguys: it keeps its own index of the whole disk, including the hidden files and app data Spotlight skips, and results show up as you type with fuzzy matching.

	▲	wartywhoa23 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Thanks for the heads-up!

▲ appletrotter a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is why I rip out spotlight on my mac and replace it with FZF

	▲	a96 18 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Would you have a guide? Particularly on the rip out part. Fzf is no nice unless you trigger it on a dir too big (e.g. your entire home).
	▲	wartywhoa23 15 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I also resort to `cd / && rg --no-messages --files \| rg "name"`

▲ alexgoodhart a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Spotlight was really good on Tiger idkwym