Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!think.com!samsung!caen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!aplpy.jhuapl.edu!gersh From: gersh@aplpy.jhuapl.edu (John R. Gersh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Advanced find? Summary: Can be done, sort of Keywords: System-7, find Message-ID: <1991Jun27.214740.16378@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu> Date: 27 Jun 91 21:47:40 GMT References: Sender: news@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (USENET News System) Distribution: comp Organization: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab Lines: 33 In article Bjorn.Larsen@usit.uio.no asks [Why the System 7 "nifty new Find command" won't do compound searches] But it will; you just have to use it twice (or more). Search on the first criterion (e.g., Kind includes application) with "all at once" checked. This will result in a view-by-name window for your top-level disk directory with all the items found selected. Call Find... once more, immediately. This time, use your second criterion, (e.g., Size less than 100k), keeping "all at once" checked and choosing "the selected items" from the Search popup menu. The new criterion will be applied to the items found on the first search, resulting, in the example, with all the applications less than 100k selected. The process can obviously be continued with additional criteria. Of course, there are limits here: The procedure can only do simple compound (AND) searches, not arbitrary boolean ones. Also, only one volume can be searched at a time using this procedure. - John Gersh --------------------------------------------------------------------- gersh@aplpy.jhuapl.edu {backbone!}mimsy!aplcen!aplcomm!gersh The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins Rd., Laurel, MD 20723 (301) 953-5503