When I unistall an application I want to check for all remaining files on computer. Searching them with Finder doesn't show any protected file, for instance from Library, and also hidden files are never included in search. Can this be controlled or changed?
MacOS – How to set Finder to show all files in search including hidden and Library files
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Sadly, I never found a solution to this either. According to LifeHacker there is actually no way to do it except using comercial software. So the only other possible answer your question is 'use the Terminal'
- Open a terminal
Enter this command:
cd <your_directory_of_interest>Find the files with a name starting with a 'dot'.
find . -name ".*"- You can redirect the resulting list to a textfile by adding
> textfilenameto the last command. Then use that file to do whatever you need to do with the files.
See attached image:
When I search with the parameters Kind:C source code and for the term Bootstrap, I am able to locate all of my C files that contain that string.
Is this the functionality that you are wanting that you don't have?
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Best Answer
You can add the System files and File visibility attributes to the filter bar:
Files that start with a period are still excluded though.
This makes Finder show hidden files:
mdfind includes system files by default, but it doesn't include hidden files unless you specify kMDItemFSInvisible=1.