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Is there any possibility to change default behaviour of Search text box in Finder to search with “Name contains” instead of “Name matches”?
I know there is this possibility in advanced searching criteria but that is way too lengthy and usually I just need to quickly find some files by part of the filename.
macOS Catalina v10.15.5
On my system, typing successive letters always shrinks the results menu. Have you tried rebuilding your Spotlight index? Open terminal in an admin account and type:
sudo mdutil -i on "/Volumes/YourHardDiskNameHere"
, authenticate with your password, and go get a coffee.
Edit: Another way to accomplish this is to open Spotlight preferences to the privacy tab and drag your HDD icon from finder onto the "Prevent spotlight..." list. Close preferences (may not be necessary - ?). Open it again to the same tab and use the +/- buttons to delete the disk. Re-indexing should start.
You can add tokens like this by typing name: before the search phrase or selecting Filename contains from the suggestion list:
Best Answer
Find Any File can do this, an it's only $7.99:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/find-any-file-faf/id402569179?mt=12
FYI I haven't tried it myself, but the developer website screenshot shows searching by Contains:
http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/index.php