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Spotlight, the automatic file index and search utility on your Mac, automatically indexes files on external drives for searching. When you connect an external hard drive to your computer, files on the ...

The Linux find command makes it easy to find files on your system – even if you don’t remember their names or exactly when you last updated them. Some of the options are a bit more challenging than ...

File names on Linux systems can be as long as 255 characters. While determining which files in a directory have the longest names might not be the most exciting task at hand, doing this with a script ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. There are plenty of tricks and tools to use in your searches. There are plenty of tricks and tools to use in your ...

In this how-to, we’ll look at various ways of using the find command to help us find files and directories across the Linux filesystem. Sometimes we misplace a file or directory and we can spend ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Don’t let any file get away from you. Don’t let any file get away from you. Finding files on your Mac drive can ...

It’s fast, it’s powerful, and its very name suggests that it does something technical: grep. With this workhorse of the command line, you can quickly find text hidden in your files. Understanding grep ...

Reader Colin McAuley seeks a better way to find. He writes: I have a lot of stuff on my Mac and I’m constantly in the Find window looking for it. More often than not I’m doing a search for the name of ...

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How to organize and name folders and files in Google Drive Your email has been sent When your organization transitions to Google Drive for storage, you have the opportunity to make changes to legacy ...

Given the enormous amounts of files most of end up downloading, even the best smartphones can quickly become a handheld electronic briefcase stuffed full of memes, menus, and everything else we ...