Before switching to Lion (on Snow leopard) I used to open a directory (like my Downloads) and start searching using the search box at the top right of the finder window for a file and there was an option to restrict the search to "filenames" only.
The "filename" option does not show up by default for me, is there a way to bring it back?
How to enable search by filename in finder on Lion
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Related Solutions
Open the finder window and hit cmd+j.
Select the settings you want and then at the bottom hit Use As Defaults.
The keyboard shortcut was changed to ⌃⌘F.
If you open a window with ⌃⌘F, there is no indication in the UI that Finder is matching only filenames other than that the "Name matches" item in the suggestion list is selected:
Finder should only match filenames even if you don't press return though.
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Best Answer
You can add tokens like this by typing
name:before the search phrase or selecting Filename contains from the suggestion list: