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macOS Ventura is now available

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Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by Liquid_Fire »

iammjm wrote: post #180
sergiotapia wrote: post #42

I can't help but wonder how Steve Jobs would have flipped out if he saw something like this on his devices. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/product/availability/A...

wtf is this foto, like how is this iphone half the size of the mac? also, is it taped to the mac? I bet it would actually just drag the lid down with its weight. so it stands on something?

> like how is this iphone half the size of the mac?

That part looks correct to me?

I don't have an iPhone to compare, but my phone is easily half the size of a 14" MacBook Pro when placed like that... and Google tells me that some iPhones are basically the same size as my phone.

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by snoopy_telex »

natch wrote: post #490
wlonkly wrote: post #321

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For what it's worth, the terminal interface to the Spotlight database is "mdfind". It still doesn't solve GP's "only this directory" problem though. (But your "find" will search in and below the current directory for files that exactly match "somestring".)

>For what it's worth, the terminal interface to the Spotlight database is "mdfind". Yeah I realize that, but find is a stronger tool for the use case because it also allows wildcards to be specified in the name. >your "find" will search in and below Your "mdfind" will also search in and below the current directory. find also has -depth which can be used to tell it to search only this directory. mdfind has -onlyin to…

you could also just have find run the grep for you as well

    `find . -type f -name \*.py -exec grep homestring {} \;`
It's not exactly equivalent, however, I often will just use find directly for simple actions.

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by husamia »

deergomoo wrote: post #183
anigbrowl wrote: post #167

The update is cool but the update process was not. -Update available, wanna install? Sure -OK don't mind me I'm gonna need a while OK -HA HA I LIED I"M READY TO TERMINATE EVERYTHING BYEEEE WTF 5 reboots with just an Apple icon and a progress bar The progress bar also moves backwards sometimes I guess it's a metaphor for life, which is how long this seems to be taking -OK hello I am back but I need 10 minutes of alone…

I got a Windows PC for the first time in over a decade recently and I cannot understand why MacOS updates are so damned slow

updates are fast but downloading takes longer to complete

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by jjav »

zestyping wrote: post #16

Countless person-years of engineering effort, and Spotlight is still mostly useless. All I want is to hit Command-F to quickly search the filenames in the current folder (not start a sluggish scan of my entire hard disk). There used to be workarounds for this, but then they removed "Find by Name..." from Finder just to make our lives harder. Does anyone know a workable alternative?

> Does anyone know a workable alternative?

Terminal and /usr/bin/find

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by zestyping »

lilyball wrote: post #31
zestyping wrote: post #16

Countless person-years of engineering effort, and Spotlight is still mostly useless. All I want is to hit Command-F to quickly search the filenames in the current folder (not start a sluggish scan of my entire hard disk). There used to be workarounds for this, but then they removed "Find by Name..." from Finder just to make our lives harder. Does anyone know a workable alternative?

No they didn't. Find by Name… still exists. It's ⌃⇧⌘F (ctrl-shift-cmd-F). You might have missed it because it's a dynamic menu item (Find turns into Find by Name… once you press ⌃⇧). Tip: Use the Help menu to search menu items. I just pressed ⌘? and typed "Find" and Find by Name… popped up.

Ctrl-Shift-Cmd-F? Are you forking kidding me? I know sometimes you can press Option to show secret menu items (which I bet Thank you for showing me that menu command! That'll be a lifesaver going forward. Usability achieved despite Apple design, not because of it.

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by zestyping »

dwaite wrote: post #354
zestyping wrote: post #16

Countless person-years of engineering effort, and Spotlight is still mostly useless. All I want is to hit Command-F to quickly search the filenames in the current folder (not start a sluggish scan of my entire hard disk). There used to be workarounds for this, but then they removed "Find by Name..." from Finder just to make our lives harder. Does anyone know a workable alternative?

One trick is to know that spotlight indexes content and metadata separately, and most search interfaces default to content. Typing in "README.md" in system spotlight will look for documents that contain a reference to that name, while "name:README.MD" will look for ones marked as _having_ that name. The search interface in finder has a builder for predicates (start a search then hit the plus on the right side of the…

I know you can specify these predicates; the problem is the absolutely terrible choice of default behaviour.

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by zestyping »

chongli wrote: post #23
zestyping wrote: post #16

Countless person-years of engineering effort, and Spotlight is still mostly useless. All I want is to hit Command-F to quickly search the filenames in the current folder (not start a sluggish scan of my entire hard disk). There used to be workarounds for this, but then they removed "Find by Name..." from Finder just to make our lives harder. Does anyone know a workable alternative?

Finder -> Preferences -> Advanced. When performing a search: Search the current folder

That searches the _contents_ of the files in the current folder. I just want to search the names (the way Cmd-F works in, you know, every other application: it searches what you see in the window).

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by satysin »

sramsay wrote: post #276
satysin wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The RC will most likely be promoted to release within the next 24 hours like with Xcode 14 and 14.0.1

Except not this time. RC 2 was just released.

Yes I just noticed that, interesting break from the past two releases!
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