![]() ![]() Then you blithely suggest that i should restore from the backup that i ran prior to attempting this. the logical consequence of not catching this is to catastrophically move files - with potentially no option to UNDO - or tellingly at least no advice to make sure to run an Undo if it screws up for some reason.įor instance, my Finder Find interface right now shows This Mac, All My Files, and Shared. ![]() Where to start? stop and think about this for a minute.įirst off, you gave me advice to use finder to move all files from a folder - whereas the other poster suggested i use terminal commands - and the very real result of this suggestion for /anyone/ including expert users is to not catch and/or not see and/or not understand what is being searched in what by any stretch of the imagination is a visually un-intuitive Finder interface for the Search Function. I just went back to look to check the folder that i moved everything to just in case and i am actually thinking that i have made a big mistake while time machine is off. or god forbid all my documents from THIS MAC or something? i mean, there does not appear to be any way to determine that i am actually searching this one folder that i opened that is on my desktop /except/ by assuming that it was the window that was in fact open when i ran CMD + F.Īm i missing something here or do you know what i mean? i mean, if i happened to accidentally click on another open finder window before running CMD + F there would be no way for me to know that i was about to move a bajillion files from the wrong folder. ![]() There is something really sort of confusing about this (i am on ML at the moment) in that the FINDER window that gets opened up just says "searching This Mac" at the top and then it shows "Search: This Mac | All My Files" in the top just under the title of the window. Oh gosh, i think i just made a big mistake here. ![]()
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