Find files in current folder without spotlight I have often read about how good the MacOS finder is, but I cannot for the life of me work out how to get it to actually find something.

Is it possible to type in a partial file name in the Search Box and get it to highlight matching files in the current folder?



I can find files in the shell, and I also have EasyFind and Find Any File, but surely the MacOS finder can do a simple thing like that … ?

I don’t want to use Spotlight, as it doesn’t do the job simply, and I am looking for files on unindexed volumes.
This should work out of the box, actually.


Open Finder Preferences and set the default search location to "current folder"


In the search box of Finder start typing the name of the file (or a part of it) to get matching files/folders