Search on osx

Willis · 1 Jul 2008 at 16:10

Just a quick one, is there a search button so I can search for pictures/video etc on a selected hard drive. Like the one in XP

Willis · 1 Jul 2008 at 16:37

But thats if you know the file name I just want osx to find all music files on a external hard drive.

Willis · 1 Jul 2008 at 16:51

JUMPURS said:
Well i know there is an 'all music' and 'all videos' folder.
Is it possible to set up similar just for your extarnal drive?

I've got a external HD which I want to wipe for time machine back up but before I do I want to get all my music and films off it but they are all over the drive and cant seem to set spotlight to look on that drive for the files types :confused:

Willis · 1 Jul 2008 at 18:51

EVH said:
Type the filetype in to the spotlight textbox.

E.g. Searching for .m4a (iTunes AAC audio files)

yeh but that will search all my drives and show 1000's of files. How do I choose the search location e.g F: drive.