Finder -> Preferences -> Advanced.
When performing a search:
Search the current folder
When performing a search:
Search the current folder
defaults write com.apple.finder FXDefaultSearchScope -string "SCcf"It grabs my dot files and restores them, installs Homebrew and a bunch of programs, restores their plists (I have backup script that backs up all their plists) and writes a bunch of macOS settings via the `defaults write` command.
I can install/wipe macOS, follow the initial setting screens then when on the desktop I just connect to my NAS, copy over one script and run it in the Terminal to get my machine setup how I like it. It isn't perfect but it does about 97% of the work for me with the added bonus that it is consistent/reproducible for the most part so avoids me forgetting to change a setting some place.
I don't go crazy with it as I don't wipe my machine often enough to justify going all out with a fully automated system. Honestly it is less to save time and more to maintain consistency and have a 'documented as code' record of my environment setup (not quite infrastructure as code levels :)
# Trackpad: enable tap to click for this user and for the login screen
# Trackpad: map bottom right corner to right-click
# Disable “natural” (Lion-style) scrollingthis is old-lenovo-hacker style
Have you tried using the trackpad at its default settings? They actually make a ton of sense.
But it seems this project has fallen behind on PRs.
If you would like to have this fix, you can do this after cloning the repo:
git clone https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles && cd dotfiles
git fetch origin "+refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/*" && git cherry-pick origin/pr/963Use Alfred; I've been using it for years (10 maybe?) -- solves this problem and is extremely useful in general
Physical function keys are a must-have for every mac imo
Most new Macs come with full-size function keys, including a massive escape key the same size as the tab key. (At least on the en-US layout; can't speak to others.)
> Physical function keys are a must-have for every mac imo
While it wasn't the case for a while, they all do now.
Also four finger press for cmd+`
My only excuse for using Alfred is Dash (https://kapeli.com/dash), which integrates with Alfred, but these days so does just about every editor i use (including Vim, Emacs and Sublime Text), so i very rarely find myself using Alfred for it anymore.
One tool i do use at lot though is Hook (https://hookproductivity.com/).
This is just speculation, but based on a conversation with my partner, there are two types of computer users. The first group makes use of hierarchical storage, consistent naming conventions, and other organizational tricks to give them a rough idea of where any file might be. The second group has never heard the term "file systems" and just stores everything with an arbitrary name in whatever location the originating application uses by default.
The first group would prefer to search the given directory, because the supplied context (of which folder to start the search in) drastically improves/speeds search results. The second group prefers to search the entire disk, because supplying that additional context is impossible - any file might appear anywhere.
The set intersection between the first group and "people who change their default settings" is much higher than it is with the second group. Consequently, the whole disk search is enabled by default.
Additionally, given the addition of an "All My Files" view in Finder (a feature which the first group would probably find baffling), Apple may also believe that the latter group outnumbers the former.
As search is fast enough nowadays with indexing, I'd rather have it search the whole disk every time than the directory I'm in just to realize I've put it someplace else.
Maybe we need a name for this behavior, I propose "idiot-driven-development".
Short answer Large number of users don’t use folders to organize their files. They just depend on searching everywhere to find files that may have dropped in any random location. Those people are less likely to find the setting that makes current folder the default search target.
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