Bella Jones <bellajonez[at]yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> iMac 350/ OS 9.1 / Sherlock 2
>
> Yes, this is dumb, I know. But not obvious. To me :-).
>
> How do you search for all the files created by a particular application,
> say, QuarkXpress?
>
> I have gone round and round the custom menu trying to work this one out.
> It's not 'file name contains' or 'content contains' or even 'file type' as
> it won't let me type more than a few characters - so I guess that's just for
> suffixes.

Sort of. You have to know what the Quark Xpress filetype is. Xpress 3
document filetype is XDOC, or you can search for the creator, which is
XPR3 for Xpress v3. Both filetype and creator are always 4 characters,
and capitalisation is important.

I was just about to say you can search for "kind contains Quark Xpress"
but running Sherlock 2, discovered you don't get that option. You have
to search on Creator or Filetype then, which you can find out using
ResEdit, or my personal favourite was always Daniel Azuma's FileTyper.

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Pd

in article 1fxjb3m.aa6te4hzeg71N%pd.news[at]dsl.pipex.invalid, PeterD at
pd.news[at]dsl.pipex.invalid wrote on 3/7/03 7:00 pm:

>> How do you search for all the files created by a particular application,
>> say, QuarkXpress?
>>
>> I have gone round and round the custom menu trying to work this one out.
>> It's not 'file name contains' or 'content contains' or even 'file type' as
>> it won't let me type more than a few characters - so I guess that's just for
>> suffixes.
>
> Sort of. You have to know what the Quark Xpress filetype is. Xpress 3
> document filetype is XDOC, or you can search for the creator, which is
> XPR3 for Xpress v3. Both filetype and creator are always 4 characters,
> and capitalisation is important.
>
> I was just about to say you can search for "kind contains Quark Xpress"
> but running Sherlock 2, discovered you don't get that option. You have
> to search on Creator or Filetype then, which you can find out using
> ResEdit, or my personal favourite was always Daniel Azuma's FileTyper.

ResEdit looks like one for the desert island - but even then, the only
resource forks I'll be looking for will be for eating grilled crab!

Thanks for the info.