I’ve been very disapointed in Spotlight for mac. It’s like google desktop. It only finds what they choose to index. The problem came when I wanted to delete all old configuration files for synergy so that I could do a clean reinstall of it. Of course Spotlight was completely useless.
Here is a simple command to do a true file search of the entire contents of the drive and output the results to a file…
sudo find / -name ‘*whatToFind*’ > /Temp/FoundFiles.txt