ProFind 4+
Ross Tulloch
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
ProFind provides fast and powerful searches of any disks, beneath an elegant and extremely powerful interface.
With support for innovative natural language queries, application launching, saved searches, history, scripting and more, it's the only search app you'll ever need.
Feature List:
Natural language search queries.
Autocompletion for application names, command names and keywords.
Spotlight not required (except for Spotlight metadata searches).
Search inside invisible folders and packages.
Searches any disk type: Mac, Windows, servers, etc.
Supported search locations: home, mac disks, local disks, servers, individual disks, open Finder folders.
Search Saving and History.
Custom Groups.
Exporting of search results to Text or CSV.
Search by: name, creation date, modification date, file extensions, tags, parent folders, kind, regex, wildcards and spotlight Metadata.
Exclude (-) words.
Hashes: md4, md5, sha1, sha224, sha256, sha384, sha512. (Show Advanced Info).
Full, non obscured, display of file paths with path diference highlighting.
Large icon view for one or two search results.
Spatial disk browsing (with saving of window positions, size, scroll position, etc).
Support for executing shell and AppleScripts on found items.
Highlighting of found words.
Sidebar featuring: Saved Searches, History, Favorites, Recent Items, Built-in searches for recent downloads and recent changes files.
Context menus: Sharing, Services, Open, Show In Finder, Get Info, Copy Path.
Quick access to favourite folders.
QuickLook previews.
Supports Dark Mode (10.14 Mojave).
Drag and drop out of the app.
Menu bar icon on/off.
Fully configurable system wide hot key.
Built in command reference.
What’s New
Version 1.25
You can now use "OR" when searching for words. For example: "cat OR dog" will return results including either word. "OR" must be uppercase.
Added 'Maximum Folder Depth' command to limit searches at a particular maximum search depth. Type: 'max depth 4'
Items which have been found in a cache but no-longer exist on disk are shown with a line through their file names.
Better support for searching cloud storage.
Minor UI changes.
Ratings and Reviews
Doesn't work
Like, literally, it doesn't find files as often as not. Maybe something broke? I found good reviews of it elsewhere and so paid my $$$ to purchase it. But it's just fundamentally not working.
Absolutely Horrible
This software is absolutely horrible.
It just sits there chugging CPU forever on a simple filename based search. And it never finishes. How bad can you possibly be at coding, that you can't even manage to find a filename without the whole app's user interface freezing up/lagging and chugging massive CPU? I can throw something together in node-js in 5 minutes that finds filesnames 10x faster than this and actually *finishes*. This guy has serious problems and he does not understand how to code.
The whole entire UI locks up and lags to low framerate when you type in the search. The programmer of this does not even understand how to code a UI thread.
Out of all the search tools available on the App Store, this is the lowest quality search tool I have ever downloaded.
A few months ago when I tried the software, it actually froze my machine, cores maxed out, and CPU at 200 degrees F. In the past ten years, I've never seen a software that did that on any of my Macs.
Total fail, I feel bad for even paying a few dollars.
App Privacy
The developer, Ross Tulloch, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Ross Tulloch
- Size
- 5.6 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.5 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2022 Ross Tulloch.
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Full Version $6.99
- 14-day Trial $0.00