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GoToFile

Find any file. Instantly. Created by soma-zone

Freemium $ $ $
Mac

GoToFile is a fast, flexible and accurate utility to find files and folders on your Mac.

Link to official GoToFile site

Official Website

Pricing Information

One time purchase (perpetual license) that cost about $15

Feature

File Searching Add a feature

Category

File Management

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GoToFile was added by atu777 in Apr 2019 and the latest update was made in Apr 2019. The list of alternatives was updated Apr 2020. It's possible to update the information on GoToFile or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

Fuzzy Search
Type a few characters and GoToFile will show matching items instantaneous. Fuzzy Search means you can leave out characters and type only the more pregnant ones. It's just the order that matters. Typing upper-case characters will favour items with those characters at word boundaries. GoToFile can search by file name or by complete path.

Search everywhere
GoToFile uses search sets called projects. A project consists of one or more folders to search and rules which state which subfolders are to be ignored and which items are to be excluded from or included in the index. Indexes are kept in memory and updated automatically.

Temporary filters
Sometimes files or folders have very common names. You'll end up with a long list of similarly named items in different locations. In this case you can select path components (^?, ^?) and choose to focus on this path (?=) or exclude everything below it (?-) from the search result. This ad-hoc filter does not modify the project settings and can be easily reset (??).

Recent Items
You just downloaded a file and want to open it? You just saved a file in one application and want to open it in another one? Open the search panel and press ?R to switch to Recent Items mode. GoToFile presents a searchable list of recently created/modified items ordered by creation/modification date in descending order.

Browser mode
If you know the name of an item, you search for it by name. If you don't, you can use GoToFile's built-in Browser mode to explore the filesystem. Switch between modes by pressing ?. If you've found a folder you'd like to search, select it and press ??S to create a virtual project from it search. In Search Mode you can press ??B to reveal the selected item in Browser Mode.

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