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How to use wildcard characters in Spotlight search?

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Mar 15, 202633723 views
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I'm used to using the search window in Windows that provided the ability to use options such as: Date of Creation/Modification File Size File Extension Wild Card Characters How can I search with Spotlight with similar criteria?

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Fix for: How to use wildcard characters in Spotlight search?

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Unfortunately it seems you can only do wildcard queries using "raw queries" which are typically associated with the mdfind command. For example (the c at the end makes it case-independent): While you can't do Raw Queries from the simple Spotlight fi…

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