![]() ![]() Spotlight and FAF (during its initial search phase) found the EXIF metadata, but EasyFind couldn’t. Spotlight (with or without HoudahSpot) was able to find a term saved in Keywords metadata (an extended attribute), but neither EasyFind nor FAF could. Searching metadata also produced varying results. All three apps were able to search a folder in iCloud Drive as well as one in ~/Documents. EasyFind performed worst of all, and only found the term in three files: RTF, plain text, and HTML. Strangely, Spotlight, even when accessed through HoudahSpot, failed to find the search term in the RTF file, but found all the others. Only FAF, with its combination of Spotlight and data inspection, found all the documents in the test set. Searching document contents was surprisingly troubled. All apps were given Full Disk Access in the Privacy tab before use, although on this occasion I don’t think that any needed that for the tests.Īll Spotlight searches were essentially instantaneous, but searching ~/Documents in EasyFind took 21 seconds, and 37 seconds in Find Any File (that reduces to 27 seconds when using the latest beta-release). Test documents were stored in their own folder in ~/Documents, the total size of which is 60 GB for 32,236 items, on the fast internal SSD of an iMac Pro.
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