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You can view view your active searches' status and/or cancel them using the Job Manager.

Simple Search#

Just need to quickly search your files by name? Open Quick Search (⌘F), type in what you’d like to find and press Enter to start the search.

Example#

Cosmil with the simple search dialog open. A simple text input is shown which can be used to match file names.

Cosmil with a simple search completed, showing a list of screenshot files, since the query was "screenshot".

Advanced Search#

Advanced search (opened via ⌘⇧F) is far more powerful than simple search and gives you the ability to combine specific filters relating to files and their metadata.

Filters are made up of up to 4 components:

Filter Type
- One of: Name, Kind, Modified, Created, Accessed, or Size
Operator
- Name: One of is, is not, contains, starts with, or ends with
- Kind: is or is not
- Temporal/Size: more than, less than, or equal to
Selector
- Name: A string of characters
- Kind: One of the provided File Kinds
- Temporal/Size: A positive integer number
Selector Modifier
- Temporal: One of minutes/hours/days/weeks/months/years ago
- Size: One of bytes, KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, etc…
  
  Note
  
  Modifiers are only applicable to Temporal and Size filter types.

Every component is available as an input in the search dialog (you have to select a filter type first to see the rest though). When you’ve input all the components for one of your filters, either press the Add Filter button or use the ⌥Enter keyboard shortcut.

You can add as many filters as you like and combine with AND or OR logic — which you can choose at the bottom left of the dialog. Finally, to run your search you can press the Run Search button or use the ⌘Enter keyboard shortcut.