Take Control of Managing Your Files, 2nd Edition

Find Your Files

When we think of file management, it’s usually focused on the front end of dealing with files: organizing how and where they’re stored, adding metadata like tags to better identify them, and setting up ways to make the process easier. Once a file has been handled, we move on to the next, and then to the next.

That work is all to service the other side of file management: finding those files later, whether that means knowing immediately which directory to open or using search tools to get software to do the work for you.

Find Files in macOS

Apple’s Spotlight search technology is woven throughout macOS, collecting results from your web browsing history, contacts, calendar events, and several other sources. For our purposes, of ...