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From: Mike Rosenberg on 24 Jul 2010 11:34
My client, a lone Mac user in an otherwise all-PC law office, had for
years been mounting a Windows shared volume on the server and searching
it by date, from his 700 MHz eMac running Mac OS X 10.2.x through
10.4.11.

Recently, the eMac died and was replaced with new mini running Snow
Leopard at the same time as the Windows server was replaced with a new
one. Now he can access the Windows share just fine and read/write
documents on it, but he can no longer search it by date. Between the new
server no longer supporting AFP and Spotlight's limitations compared to
Tiger's and earlier OS X versions' Find, it simply appears impossible to
search using date as the criterion.

As odd as it sounds, this is his way of doing billing. He's a founding
partner in this firm and very stubborn, and rather than finding another
way to do it, he wants me and/or his Windows IT people to fix it. The
latter have "tried everything" on the server and have given up, saying
it's entirely my problem to fix.

Does anyone have any ideas that don't involve having this man run
Windows? I've tried Easy Find, but that doesn't search by date. I've
tried Thursby's DAVE and ADmit Mac, and I've communicated with Thurby's
support, and they don't think it's possible at all.

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From: John Halloran on 24 Jul 2010 12:40
Mike Rosenberg <mikePOST(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com> wrote:

> My client, a lone Mac user in an otherwise all-PC law office, had for
> years been mounting a Windows shared volume on the server and searching
> it by date, from his 700 MHz eMac running Mac OS X 10.2.x through
> 10.4.11.
>
> Recently, the eMac died and was replaced with new mini running Snow
> Leopard at the same time as the Windows server was replaced with a new
> one. Now he can access the Windows share just fine and read/write
> documents on it, but he can no longer search it by date. Between the new
> server no longer supporting AFP and Spotlight's limitations compared to
> Tiger's and earlier OS X versions' Find, it simply appears impossible to
> search using date as the criterion.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas that don't involve having this man run
> Windows? I've tried Easy Find, but that doesn't search by date. I've
> tried Thursby's DAVE and ADmit Mac, and I've communicated with Thurby's
> support, and they don't think it's possible at all.

It would be worth looking at Path Finder by Cocoatech.

It lets you search by three types of dates (created, last opened, last
modified). You can then set any one of a number of date criteria (today,
this week, this month, exact date, before a date, after a date.)

I don't know if it will work in the environment you need, and didn't see
a clear answer on that taking a quick look at the help file.

John

From: Mike Rosenberg on 24 Jul 2010 13:51
John Halloran <jfoh(a)ct.invalid> wrote:

> It would be worth looking at Path Finder by Cocoatech.
>
> It lets you search by three types of dates (created, last opened, last
> modified). You can then set any one of a number of date criteria
> (today,
> this week, this month, exact date, before a date, after a date.)
>
> I don't know if it will work in the environment you need, and didn't
> see
> a clear answer on that taking a quick look at the help file.

Thanks, John. I'll give it a try.

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From: emelvy on 24 Jul 2010 15:25
On Jul 24, 11:34 am, mikeP...(a)TOGROUPmacconsult.com (Mike Rosenberg)
wrote:

> . . . he can no longer search it by date. Between the new
> server no longer supporting AFP and Spotlight's limitations compared to
> Tiger's and earlier OS X versions' Find, it simply appears impossible to
> search using date as the criterion.
>
>
Take a look at Thomas Tempelmann's free/donationware "Find Any File"
at
<http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/>. It can find by Creation Date
or Modification Date,
and you can choose from "is exactly", "is before", "is after", or "is
within the past" X
"minutes/hours/days/weeks/months/years". I have used Find Any File
for a couple of
years. It is fast, accurate, and much to my liking.
From: Erik Richard Sørensen on 24 Jul 2010 17:33

Mike Rosenberg wrote:
> My client, a lone Mac user in an otherwise all-PC law office, had for
> years been mounting a Windows shared volume on the server and searching
> it by date, from his 700 MHz eMac running Mac OS X 10.2.x through
> 10.4.11.
>
> Recently, the eMac died and was replaced with new mini running Snow
> Leopard at the same time as the Windows server was replaced with a new
> one. Now he can access the Windows share just fine and read/write
> documents on it, but he can no longer search it by date. Between the new
> server no longer supporting AFP and Spotlight's limitations compared to
> Tiger's and earlier OS X versions' Find, it simply appears impossible to
> search using date as the criterion.
>
> As odd as it sounds, this is his way of doing billing. He's a founding
> partner in this firm and very stubborn, and rather than finding another
> way to do it, he wants me and/or his Windows IT people to fix it. The
> latter have "tried everything" on the server and have given up, saying
> it's entirely my problem to fix.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas that don't involve having this man run
> Windows? I've tried Easy Find, but that doesn't search by date. I've
> tried Thursby's DAVE and ADmit Mac, and I've communicated with Thurby's
> support, and they don't think it's possible at all.

- Have you tried to add the Windows server's disk as a 'shared disk'
(show all mounted disks / show network) in the OS X Finder? - I can
easily search my XPPro disk from within 10.5.8, when it's active on the
network...

- Have you in SnowLeopard tried to add/select 'search by date' in the
Finders' search commands under 'Type' - using the COM+F? - maybe using
the 'Others...' descriptions in the 'Type' popup menu...

- Have you tried this one?
HoudahSpot 3.0.3 (shareware)
Spotlight front-end: file search tool.
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/33495

Cheers, Erik Richard

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