10.5: Get locate to index the Time Machine drive

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10.5: Get locate to index the Time Machine drive
Authored by: ecbtln on Fri, Nov 16 2007 at 2:52PM PST

what is the advantage of using locate over mdfind?

10.5: Get locate to index the Time Machine drive
Authored by: robg on Fri, Nov 16 2007 at 3:16PM PST

When I've tried it, mdfind didn't seem to match just filenames. For instance, mdfind foo found this:

/Applications/iWork '08/User Guides/Pages User Guide.pdf

I don't see 'foo' anywhere in there. locate foo, on the other hand, returns only filenames, and it's quite fast.

-rob.

10.5: Get locate to index the Time Machine drive
Authored by: PatrickS on Fri, Nov 16 2007 at 3:38PM PST

Try


mdfind 'kMDItemFSName == foo'

(or mdimport -X 2>&1 | less for a list of all search attributes).

locate is significantly faster though...

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10.5: Get locate to index the Time Machine drive
Authored by: baltwo on Fri, Nov 16 2007 at 7:48PM PST

Super fast, since it only searches for patterns in paths.

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