A better finder rename wildcard mac#

It's going to look by word and try to match the beginning of each word. Well matches is kind of the default spotlight search. Now what's the difference between Matches and Contains. So it finds it although there's a capital W in the name but I'm only searching for a lower case w. But if I type the entire file name it will find it. Well, then it's going to ask for an exact match. If I were to search for some other letter you could see it doesn't give me anything. Let's do Begins With and we see that this works in this case. Begins With and Ends With are pretty obvious. Now I can change matches to a few other things. There are two files here that start with the letter w. Now if I were to type even less you can see it gives me more. I can type just part of it and it will come up with the result. It's not requiring me to type the entire file name, every single letter. So as you can see it's already using one of the most important parts of a Wildcard search. I can start searching for the file name and by just typing a few letters I can find it. Let's say I want to find this file right here. So if I look in this folder here I can see a variety of different files. Now if you look at where we're searching we're not searching the entire Mac. So I can search for File Name and then I'm going to type part of the file name. Then I could see I'm going to search for Kind as Any. So I'm going to use Command F and it will open up a new tab in my case. I'm not going to use the search box up here because I want to go right to the more advanced features for what we'll do later on.

A better finder rename wildcard mac#

Here I am in a folder on my Mac and I'm going to use Command F for Find. In most cases you don't need to do anything special to search for wildcards. But I'm often asked how you can also use Wildcards to search for part of a file name or part of the contents of a file. It's fairly simple to search for files on your Mac. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 1000 supporters. Let me show you how you can search for files on your Mac with Wildcards. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out Search Using Wildcards On a Mac at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.