OS X - Search feature

[Macaruba]

Hi

I'm new to this forum, but I wonder if anyone out there has the solution to my problem.

I have text files saved in a folder, each file has an extremely long single list of random 6 figure codes.

I am trying to use the Find function or the Spotlight Application to search the content of these files and find one of the random codes.

I will have to repeat this Find with various other of the codes later also.

Hope some one can point me in the right direction.

Macaruba.

 

[Egidio]

Macaruba,

Have you run your search? It should work. When the find window opens, just select your location (the folder you have the files), then in the pull-down menus make the appropriate choice for the type of documents. When you enter the text string, you should get the specific file.

 

[Macaruba]

Thanks for that, I'm on Mac 10.5 at home and it works fine

It doesn't seem to work though when I'm at work.
We use a network of 6 mac networked up to a PC
server where all our work is stored and worked on.

When I try to search a folder on the server, it still
doesn't seem to find the codes.

Any thoughts?

 

[Egidio]

I'm not sure that Spotlight searches can search non-local files. I take it that you're trying to search on the network. I don't know whether that's possible. Hopefully someone here with more network experience will chime in.