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I believe you can do that in Finder. At least list the files by date oldest to newest vice versus. By date created or opened or modified. I believe
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I like the free app iFileX for this. You can select the external drive in this dropdown then search and there are columns to sort by date in the results screen.
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I like the free app iFileX for this. You can select the external drive in this dropdown then search and there are columns to sort by date in the results screen.
It works for me. I just did a test on a external with some documents I moved over and it worked fine. Is the external formatted in OS X Extended?
Won't work. I don't know of any OS X utility that is going to index and search a NTFS disk.
Yes... but I don't know of any Mac (OS X) app that will do that. Maybe somebody else here is aware of one.
The Terminal solution is not that hard:
Type a Command-Space followed by "term" and hit return. It should open a Terminal window.
Move that window so it's beside a Finder window (or the desktop) that shows the target drive or folder to search.
Type "cd " (c d space) and then drag-and-drop your target drive on to this window. That should cause it to type the full path name into the window. Hit return and the command will Change Directory to that target location.
Copy the following command (not including the double-quotes): "find . -newerct '2 months ago' -ls".
Paste it into Terminal, and hit return. You should see a list of files newer than two months.
You can google "unix find" for more.
Ok this was not hard to do and was really helpful. Now I've to ask you how I filter just the Folders and not the files. There are millions of files, in a 2TB HD.
Please tell me how to find the folders that I created during the last 2 months
PS: I need to learn how this thing called terminal works
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Yep, Terminal, the Unix shell, is very powerful.
You can get a manual for any Unix command using 'man' (type a space for next page, 'q' to quit):
man find
'find' has tons of switches that it calls Primaries. The two useful here are '-type d' to filter to files of type Directory (Unix for folder), and '-newerBt' which is variation of '-newerct' except it goes by creation time. We now have:
find . -type d -newerBt '2 months ago' -ls
Note that applications are actually directories, as are other packages. We can also filter them out with:
find . -name '*.app' -prune -o -type d -newerBt '2 months ago' -ls
You'll likely get a number of "Permission denied" lines in system-owned directories. You can get permission by prepending a 'sudo ' to a command and entering your password. First time you do this it will give you the J. Hector Fezandie lecture.