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Tech198

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Mar 21, 2011
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Can this easily be done in Finder ?

I've read that Spotlight can only search "words" not "strings" (Attached.) I'm guessing spotlight is mis-interpresting it as a word because of the _ and no space between the two.

I'm searching for all files that end in _fi (basically I'm wanting to trash all files with the same file name but have _fi, _Cz, different language versions of those files, and just keep engish only versions)

however, i have tried "_fi" Name "Contains" "Matches" and "ends with" but none return any files at all.

Some file names do all end with _fi as in he screenshot (Hugo and v2) both do. and while i could go though and sift out these one, I was hoping for these to be the only ones, as per the the criteria "ends with" does not means any files,, it means filenames ending with this search term, as i would of thought.

Is there a way to only pull up the search u type in ?
 

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