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> Lack of type-ahead search1. Believe it or not, triggering a full-blown recursive search doesn’t replace the ability to focus a particular file in the current
by truffdog 4y ago
> Lack of type-ahead search1. Believe it or not, triggering a full-blown recursive search doesn’t replace the ability to focus a particular file in the current folder by simply typing (part of) its name. I suspect 90% of users—especially those coming from Windows or macOS—expect the latter behavior
MacOS is actually the source of this annoying behavior
- dmitriid 4y agoYou can focus any file by typing its name in MacOS. However, the behaviour is somewhat weird. If your current selection is a folder, and you start typing, it's a 50/50 guess of where it will start the search: in the folder you've selected, or in the parent folder of your currently selected folder Edit: Reading other comments I now realise you meant the behaviour of Cmd+F which doesn't default to "search in current folder". Thankfully, there's a setting for that now, added a few years back: Cmd + <comma> in a Finder window -> Advanced -> "When performing a search: Search the Current Folder"