Lost document drafted 10/3/03

[novice word guy]

I can't find a document I drafted 10/3/03. After drafting it, I
printed it.

I need to find document on my harddrive and want to search for time
document created as I cannot remember document's name or location.

How do I search harddrive for documents created on a particular day?

 

[Beth Rosengard]

Hi Jim,

Please always state your OS and Office/Word version numbers when posting.
You'll get a more useable answer!

I'm in OS 9.1 and you're probably in OS X which means the system search
mechanisms are different. The functions however should be similar. When I
open Sherlock (OS 9's search engine), I find a button called Edit which
opens up a dialog box with additional search parameters ­ including the
option to search by date created. If you take a good look at OS X's search
mechanism, I'm sure you'll find the same option.

Hope this helps.

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[novice word guy]

Beth,

Thank you very much.

I use OS X.

I received the following advice from another expert.

" From the finder, bring up find using Command F. Then select local disks
for the Search in. Now set the search criteria to Date Created and choose
the day it was created by selecting Is Exactly from the pop-up menu to the
right of Date Created. This will get you everything for the day. If you
want to narrow down the search click on plus and add a second criteria one
good idea would be to search just for documents or to look for files with
the .doc extension that were created on the date you are searching on."

This advice worked and I found my missing document.

Jim

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Actually, Beth, OS X seems to have abandoned Sherlock (hallelujah, I hated
it and am still using Find File from OS 7.5.6) and gone back to a more
sophisticated version of Find File, so far as I can tell, that pops up on
cmd-F. Not sure if Sherlock still exists for other uses.

Dayo

 

[John McGhie [MVP]]

Hi Dayo:

Yeah, Sherlock has been completely replaced with a Web searching tool. It
has the same name and icon, but it's a different application. It does not
seem to search local disks at all, and is quite useless as far as I can see.

I gave up on it: if I want to look on the web I will use Google like
everyone else.

Cheers


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Actually, Beth, OS X seems to have abandoned Sherlock (hallelujah, I hated
it and am still using Find File from OS 7.5.6) and gone back to a more
sophisticated version of Find File, so far as I can tell, that pops up on
cmd-F. Not sure if Sherlock still exists for other uses.

Dayo

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[Dayo Mitchell]

Different work habits...when I knew I wanted to search for a file on my
computer, I hated that Sherlock took the time to load all that web junk.
I've only used the OS X Find a bit at work, but am pretty happy with it.
Will have to test it on searching various disks.

I never understood why Apple thought *combining* a local file search and web
search was a benefit in the first place (though had they waited until
broadband was more widespread, it would have made more sense to me, anyhow).

Dayo

 

[Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.]

The Find File in OSX is based on UNIX GREP.

Sherlock is a separate application and deals specifically with internet
stuff now.

Different work habits...when I knew I wanted to search for a file on my
computer, I hated that Sherlock took the time to load all that web junk.
I've only used the OS X Find a bit at work, but am pretty happy with it.
Will have to test it on searching various disks.

I never understood why Apple thought *combining* a local file search and web
search was a benefit in the first place (though had they waited until
broadband was more widespread, it would have made more sense to me, anyhow).

Dayo

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