[n781lc]

Chis, since we have lost the "Save as"in Text Edit it is hard to locate a file that was inad]inadvertently placed in a default location instead of where it should have been.

Or trying to save an existing file to a new location .. tough!

Using Spotlight locates the file but no 'address' like there used to be so we could chase it down.

Appreciate a suggestion? and do you think the Apple people are aware of these changes they have made??

Seems a great deal of Macworld is taken up with apologist material and work-a-rounds.

[Tonymanx]

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One thing is to list the results, another one is to know where they are located on your hard disk. Position your mouse on a result, then click while holding down the Cmd key. At the bottom of the preview window, you will see the name of the file, and a couple of seconds later, its exact location. It has always been a mystery to me why Spotlight make obtaining this information, pretty much the most important thing you want to know from a search, so difficult and unintuitive. In 10.6 and earlier at least you could hover the pointer over a search result and get a tooltip showing the file's location, but since Lion that's gone and Spotlight will only tell you where the file is if you remember an obscure keyboard action. It's crazy, the location of every file spotlight returns should be displayed along with it's name and other information in the search results list. Spotlight is virtually useless without this info, why do Apple want to hide it from us?

I could not agree with this more! I often want to know where something is but not want to open it (I may simply want to attach it or move it).

The disappearance of this simply function is on a par with the disappearance of the save-as function.

I am assuming (because I did not read it all) that Mr Been's 3 page article on "Seek & Find" did not actually mention how to find WHERE something was actually located.

[saguaro]

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Chis, since we have lost the "Save as"in Text Edit

Press Option Save and "Save as" is back in 10.8.2

[saguaro]

I find Devonspere Express very useful. It makes it's own index

[BogieWoz]

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One thing is to list the results, another one is to know where they are located on your hard disk. Position your mouse on a result, then click while holding down the Cmd key. At the bottom of the preview window, you will see the name of the file, and a couple of seconds later, its exact location. It has always been a mystery to me why Spotlight make obtaining this information, pretty much the most important thing you want to know from a search, so difficult and unintuitive. In 10.6 and earlier at least you could hover the pointer over a search result and get a tooltip showing the file's location, but since Lion that's gone and Spotlight will only tell you where the file is if you remember an obscure keyboard action. It's crazy, the location of every file spotlight returns should be displayed along with it's name and other information in the search results list. Spotlight is virtually useless without this info, why do Apple want to hide it from us?

I whole heartedly agree. I thought the location feature was missing from this version of the OS until I read this article and the comments. This always was a important feature for me and I thought the same for many others. I am glad it is still available but in an obscure way. Not very good UI move.

[NightshadesMac]

Pathfinder is also a useful tool for finding the exact location of a file. Conducting a search with Pathfinder will always show the path to that file which, as others have mentioned is often rather useful so you don't have to keep searching for something. I know whenever I perform a search I usually want to know where the file is as well. I think the Finder would do well to adopt many of the features of Pathfinder.

[Strawtag]

I really don't like the fact that contents of the home Library folder can no longer be searched through Spotlight. As a long time Mac user I really had to make major adjustments when transitioning to Mac OS X from the classic OS, and made major use of ~/Library storage locations such as Scripts and Favorites. For early versions of OS X there was even a system-wide shortcut for Favorites, and now I can't even search there. I don't think there's any justification for this disruption to continuity, and it doesn't make sense when you consider that whatever appears in the Scripts menu (activated in preferences for AppleScript Editor) are still stored there.