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Is there a way to do Command+Spacebar to open the spotlight search on macOS Mojave, and then give the path of a folder you want to open?
For example:
"open ~/Documents/File"
or some equivalent.
If this isn't possible by default are there any extension to do this? I was looking at Flashlight but was unsure if I needed it.
Search by Kind One of the most useful ways to narrow down a search is by using the kind: keyword. This allows you to restrict your list of results to a certain file format. For instance, if you type time machine kind:pdf, Spotlight will pull up only PDF files containing the words "time" and "machine". You can also limit your search to e-mail messages, music files, System Preferences, applications, and more.
While the original Spotlight recognized only a limited number of file types, the Leopard version can look for files created by specific applications, as well as certain file formats. Searching for kind:mp3 or kind:tiff will find files in one of those formats, and searching for kind:pages or kind:powerpoint will show only documents created in one of those programs. For a list of useful keywords, see “My Kind of Keyword.” But remember, for the keywords to work, you must have the appropriate categories enabled in Spotlight’s preferences.
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If you're comfortable opening the terminal you could run the command
locate ABC/readme.txt
and it will give you the full file path to any files on your machine that are named readme.txt in a folder named ABC.
While you're there you can copy and past the path as an argument to the open command and it will open it for you.
Taking it one step further you can use the output of locate as the arguments for open with xargs
locate ABC/readme.txt | xargs open
Will open all files that have ABC/readme.txt on your machine just as if you had double-clicked them.
Best Answer
If you open Spotlight and type in the path of a specific folder and hit return that folder will open on your desktop in Finder. Put the full pathname but don't put open in the Spotlight search window.
Example: To open my python folder I type the following in the Spotlight window. /User/myname/python . Now when I hit the return key the folder opens.