Hi,

Have no idea about mac's only pc's.

Question i have is this:

On a pc you can right click on a folder and click search and then enter say *.jpg to find all jpg's within that certain folder. Can this be done on a mac.

Any help on this would be good please

Rich

 

even easier on a mac
I am guessing you are running OSX, in which case you have either panther or tiger , 10.3 or 10.4

in 10.3, just press Apple + F to bring up the search box, slect the folder you ant to search within and narrow down your search to kind, i.e picture etc

in 10.4 easy, as you have spotlight. Spotlight is the blue magnifying glass top right, or apple + F again. select the folder and narrow the search again

easy

 

many thnaks for your reply.

Once you have done a search does it bring up a list like it would on a pc? And can you then select the jpegs and delete them?

 

it certainly does...

btw if you want to do a right click on a mac and you dont have a mighty mouse, just press control + left click on your mouse and you get a right click.
simply right click on the item you want to delete and click on the delete or Trash menu item

 

SwissTony

Thanks for your time mate. The girl who wants to know about this says she gets the search function up but cant select a particular folder and it only searches the whole of the drive? I have never even sat in front of a mac so dont understand what screen she actually is seeing. Would that suggest to you that she isnt using the above operating systems you mentioned?

 

rich
In the search function you have options to search the whole drive, the computer (which is your home folder, a bit like your own folder in documents and settings on a pc), servers and others ..it is this others that allows you to select where you want to search.

She can always tell you what version she has by going to the top left of the screen to the apple icon and dropping down to ABOUT THIS MAC.It will pop uo a small info screen and tellyou if it is 10.3, 10.4 etc.

HTH

chris