For the most stable experience, users generally prefer the current official release (currently 2.6.x) available on the Mac App Store or the official website. Find Any File
: By holding the Option key, users can run searches in "Root Mode" to find files in other users' directories or hidden system areas. Find Any File (FAF) 2.4 b3
(b3) is a pre-release version of the file-searching utility for macOS by Thomas Tempelmann . Version 2.4 introduced significant new capabilities focused on advanced searching and integration. Key Features and Changes in Version 2.4 For the most stable experience, users generally prefer
: It bypasses the Spotlight database to search volumes directly, making it effective for external drives and network shares. Version 2
: The "Name ends with" rule was modified to exclude the extension by default (e.g., searching for "pies" will find "Recipes.txt").
: Added support for Default Folder X and BBEdit.