The Unix find command shows the full path of matching files, wherever they exist on disk. (Find is something I’ve used for decades, and it feels like a tool designed for a computer with a teletypewriter attached.) IDG In the Terminal, a command called find can perform a comprehensive and deep search across everything, including system files and other stuff that we don’t need to interact with and macOS doesn’t readily expose to users. It also may match a lot of files you’re not interested in. There’s a way to search comprehensively through your macOS drive (or drives) using the Terminal, but I think of it as a last resort, because it involves tricky syntax and can be slow. Spotlight should let you find nearly any file you create or store in macOS with ease, but it doesn’t always work that way. He needs to remove it to avoid a compatibility problem, and no amount of Spotlight searches nor browsing through folders can find it. Macworld reader Lon has a problem finding a file on his Mac.
