Excellent Utility

I’ve used a number of file search utilities over time and have found Find Any File to be the best for me especially when I can only recall a portion of the file name. Although I still periodically use the shell (unix) ‘find’ command I now mostly use Find Any File because it appears to search the entire file system quickly and its ease of use.

For example, when mail.app lost my VIP list, it was easy to find where the VIP list was stored since I knew the file name contained ‘vip’ and ended with ‘plist’ - by using two name search parameters - first, ‘contains=vip’ and the second ‘ends in=plist’ it was easy to find current file (which did NOT have my VIPs in it) and a backup of a previous version of the file (which did have my VIPs in it). It was then a simple matter of quiting mail.app, copying the backup to the current location, restarting mail.app and my VIP list was back. Find Any File made this hugely easier (and faster) than trying to find the proper files by manually searching.

OneOldRider about Find Any File (FAF), v1.8.9