The directory is on a network (SMB) mount, with thousands and thousands of files in it. The Finder is very very slow dealing with large directories, and with network shares. Combining the two is a recipe for long wait times. You also have to play around to get Spotlight to index network shares.
And yes, this is much faster than Spotlight, even if it was on a local drive. And all the filename matches are opened at once, with one keyboard shortcut.
What's not to love?
Darryl
Rob McBroom wrote:
On Nov 20, 2007, at 2:19 PM, Baluta Cristian wrote:
i see. do you use windows? because mac users have spotlight wich at least me, i don't see how anything else can be faster.
A wild-card match on file names in a particular directory is going to be a shit-load faster than Spotlight (and that's what he wants to do). It also won't return a bunch of noise he isn't interested in, so I can see why he's going this route.
Rob McBroom http://www.skurfer.com/ I didn't "switch" to Apple... my OS did.
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