I know this question might sound dumb but what happened to regular search on Mac? I have an mp4 file called "8 min Abs workout" in my Videos folder and the finder just doesn't show it in the results even if I search word for word. Same thing for Alfred, the app just searches web by default.<p>What are your suggestions? Maybe I should use a certain app for that?
I gave up on Finder finding things years ago. Set up your own local "cloud" the moment you have more files than you can personally remember accurately.<p>Run your data life the way a corporation would. After 10 years of compute, you surely have a corporation's worth of data, and probably 10 partially and/or randomly updated and forgotten versions of a lot of it.<p>It'll just keep growing and frizzing out if you don't maintain it. Just like the rusty panels under your station wagon...
Does the find command work on the Mac terminal?<p>On Linux, you could just run:<p><pre><code> sudo find ~/ -type f -name "*8 min Abs workout*”
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And it would give you the full path, once you have that you could use the <i>open</i> command.