Mac Forum / General / General / December 2006

These are excellent suggestions indeed.

I'm just taking the opportunity to mention my favourite utility for the
Mac which is File Buddy.

This is rather tangential because File Buddy will do very much more
than the OP desires I know.

I have used File Buddy for many years on the Classic OS and now with OS
X.

Everytime I get a new OS or a new Mac or whatever the first thing I do
is install File Buddy.

If the additional features of File Buddy appeal to the OP then it may
be of interest.

File Buddy comes from here:

<http://www.skytag.com/>

Here's some text from the web-site:

Finding your files ‹ Tired of hunting for files amidst the
ocean of Gigabytes on that new Mac¹s hard disk? File Buddy is
the most sophisticated, robust, and easy-to-use Find facility
for the Mac OS. Search by any combination of criteria on any
combination of local and network drives ­ even search your
iDisk or Windows computers on your network.

Cleaning your disks ‹ Track down unused preference files and
orphaned files to reclaim disk space. Locate and repair
broken aliases ­ or quickly and easily create new ones. Find
duplicated files, invisible files and orphans. Securely erase
files and the unused space on your drives.

Know your files ‹ Knowledge is power, and File Buddy gives
you both knowledge and power over the files on your Mac,
without having to take a programming course. Change creator
signatures to change the application that opens a file or
files, create and apply custom icons in a few clicks,
including instantly generating icons from graphic files.
Intelligently rename multiple files in batches. Automate
repetitive changes with File Buddy Droplets. Do, learn, fix
far more than we can describe here.