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Find File 2.0 - "Sherlock"


Find File 2.0, also known as "Sherlock" is a very impressive piece of software and one of the major new features of Mac OS 8.5. The individual file finding portion remains much the same, although noticeably faster. The "Find by Content" portion allows you to search within documents for key words or phrases, and thanks to having to index a volume first before you can search it by content, it's a much speedier process than one would expect. The indexing, however, can take several minutes to complete and must be done periodically to ensure the index remains up to date. Search Internet is the final and perhaps most impressive portion of Find File 2.0. Essentially a handful of the internet's most popular search engines (plus Apple's Tech Info Library), it allows you to perform an internet search from within the Finder. Some may be skeptical of this, but it does indeed work and considering the number of search engines it checks (you can select which ones you'd like it to), it's very speedy and returns a list without any banners and so on.