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It appears that Finder search results are displayed using metadata instead of the file name. I want to know the file name for the file in the results.
You can see in the first screenshot there are 3 files that simply say "Altitude" in the Name column, which is extremely unhelpful. The second screenshot shows the folder they are in outside of Finder's search results.
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.
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.
Best Answer
Open finder, go to finder preferences in the left corner.
Go to advanced.It should appear a window like this:
Select show all filename extensions and you're done.