Awesome!

Long story short, I replaced the optical drive on my MacBook Pro with an SSD so now I have to drives. I keep my OS, home folder and apps on my SSD and all my music on the original HDD (I use my laptop for DJing). I won’t go into detail but basically the dual drive setup meant that moving a file from the HDD to the Trash would take forever and I’d get the “preparing to move to trash pop-window for like 1 minute and the CPU would go into the red because Spotlight doesn’t handle re-indexing outside of the boot drive very well. The only option to prevent this hang was to tell Spotlight to ignore the HDD where all my music was stored, but unfortunately that also meant I was unable to search for music files in Spotlight. Find Any File is the perfect solution for my situation - I can now find the files on my HDD and still have Spotlight ignore my HDD and all the CPU hogging problems associated with it! By the way, I think I read something somewhere about Find Any File “finding files pretty fast” which made me think that was just another way of saying “kinda slow”, but I find it’s super fast (on my system at least). This app is well worth the $7.99 I paid for it :)

Dizzyrocks2001 about Find Any File (FAF), v1.8.8