The Linux find command makes it easy to find files on your system – even if you don’t remember their names or exactly when you last updated them. Some of the options are a bit more challenging ...

How to find files on Windows 10 and 11 It may sound obvious, but the search box on the taskbar is the perfect place to start searching on Windows. If you know the name of the file you’re looking ...

I'm confused. I name files/folders for the month and year of when I submit a rebate to keep track of which ones have processed. So, for example, I will have a scan (PDF say) or folder named ...

Find Any File finds files by name, not content, so if I'm looking for words inside a document, I go to Spotlight. If I'm looking for files by name, I go to Find Any File.

(By default, Windows 10 automatically indexes all your Microsoft Outlook files and those in your Start Menu and Users folders.) Thereafter, the Windows search tool will index every word in every file ...

If you need to search for files in OS X, one option it is to use the OS X Terminal application and some of its services.

Files Opened from Email Programs Depending on your email client and operating system, opening and saving attachments directly from the email could place them in a temporary folder that's hard to find.

Find Any File is probably the most-recommended file-finding utility for OS X, and it deserves to be.