This is a workaround for the Finder insisting on starting a search of the entire HDD on every new search rather than the good ol’ days of 10.3 which was to search in the directory you were staring at. I know you can click a button to switch it, but every time? No, I like the old way better.
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\nNo per-instance recursive option, but it’s easy enough to enable it if that is your preferred method.<\/p>\n
tell application \"Finder\" repeat This is a workaround for the Finder insisting on starting a search of the entire HDD on every new search rather than the good ol’ days of 10.3 which was to search in the directory you were staring at. I know you can click a button to switch it, but every time? No, I like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10,15,28],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code","tag-applescript-2","tag-fixit","tag-os-x"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strawhousepig.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}property search_prompt : \"Enter search text.\"
\nproperty search_string : \"\"
\nproperty is_recursive : false<\/p>\n
\n\ttry
\n\t\tset this_folder to folder of front window as alias
\n\t\tif is_recursive is false then
\n\t\t\tset the_items to name of every item of this_folder whose kind is not folder as text
\n\t\telse
\n\t\t\tset the_items to {\"\"}
\n\t\tend if
\n\tend try
\nend tell<\/p>\n
\n\tset the_search to text returned of (display dialog search_prompt default answer search_string) as text
\n\tset search_string to the_search
\n\tset the_results to \"'\" & the_search & \"' found in these files:\" & return & return
\n\tset is_found to false
\n\trepeat with i in the_items
\n\t\tset _grep to \"\"
\n\t\ttry
\n\t\t\tset _grep to do shell script \"grep -ilr '\" & the_search & \"' \" & \"'\" & POSIX path of this_folder & i & \"'\"
\n\t\tend try
\n\t\tif _grep is not \"\" then
\n\t\t\tset is_found to true
\n\t\t\tset the_results to the_results & _grep & return
\n\t\tend if
\n\tend repeat
\n\tif is_found is true then
\n\t\tset what_now to button returned of (display dialog the_results buttons {\"Retry\", \"OK\"})
\n\t\tif what_now is \"OK\" then
\n\t\t\texit repeat
\n\t\tend if
\n\telse
\n\t\tset search_prompt to \"No matches.\"
\n\tend if
\nend repeat
\n<\/code>
\nIf saved as an application you can place it in the Finder’s toolbar for easy launching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"