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I can enter "Shockwave Flash Movie" in the the search field of a Finder window and find all files that are of Kind, "Shockwave Flash Movie" However, I really want a list of all files that are NOT Shockwave Flash Movie. How can I do this?
Michael Prescott
Posted 2010-10-27T14:03:45.730
Reputation: 3 351
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There are basically two ways:
One is, select Kind, Other and enter
-"Shockwave Flash Movie"
However, this will also filter out all other types whose names only contain with "Shockwave Flash Movie". The chance is low, fortunately.
The other way is performing a raw spotlight query by selecting the entry Raw Query from the first menu.
Then you can enter the following:
kMDItemContentType != "public.jpeg"
This finds all files except JPEG images. "public.jpeg" of course is the file type you want to exclude.
To find out the internal name of SWF files, open a Terminal.app window, type mdls (with trailing Space) and drag&drop an .SWF file into this terminal window. Press Enter. Now look for a line starting with kMDItemContentType, this is the name of the SWF file type you must enter into the search query. (You only have to do this part once.)
Daniel Beck
Posted 2010-10-27T14:03:45.730
Reputation: 98 421
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I've tried: -"Plain text" and I got tons of file except those of the Plain text kind
Hope this helps
Warnaud
Posted 2010-10-27T14:03:45.730
Reputation: 569
Interesting, -"Shockwave Flash Movie" doesn't work for me, but you other way is working. Plus, I feel it is more powerful. Thank you. – Michael Prescott – 2010-10-28T02:18:43.147
@Michael: It depends on what the file type is called on your system. Open a directory in list view and look in the "Kind" column. This is what you need to enter. – Daniel Beck – 2010-10-28T05:06:00.490