Find Any File (FAF)

Find Any File is a program for Apple's macOS computers that lets you search for files on your disks.

• FAF can find files that Spotlight doesn't, e.g. on network (NAS) and other external volumes, hidden ones inside bundles and packages, and those in folders that are usually excluded from Spotlight search, such as the System and Library folders. It can even search in other users' folders if you use FAF's unique root search mode.
• FAF lets you search precisely for many file properties such as name, extension, date range, size, kind etc.

Find Any File isn't meant to replace Spotlight, but it complements it greatly:

• If you search for files by name, size, dates, kind and other directory properties, use FAF, because only then you can be sure that everything available is found, even if Spotlight hasn't indexed it.
• FAF can also find textual content in plain text, in zip (including Word and Excel files) and even in most binary files. And with the built-in option to include Spotlight results, it can also find text in PDF documents as long as they were indexed by Spotlight.
• FAF isn't the best tool for extended attributes and metadata stored in files, such as image sizes, EXIF data and GPS coordinates, but even some of that can be resolved by using external scripts.