Apple OS X Search Tools
Can someone please tell me a good tool for searching a Xserver for old files - Show files older than 2008.
Reason: The Xserver is a file server for a design department.
There are 1.6 Tb of files saved on the server and it needs to be cleaned up.
I'd like to put all the files that are old into an Archive, but the files are located all over the server in many many customer sub folders.
I'd like to do a sweep and move all the files onto an external drive but retaining the file structure.
Thanks in advance for any good suggestions.
mchallinor
Reason: The Xserver is a file server for a design department.
There are 1.6 Tb of files saved on the server and it needs to be cleaned up.
I'd like to put all the files that are old into an Archive, but the files are located all over the server in many many customer sub folders.
I'd like to do a sweep and move all the files onto an external drive but retaining the file structure.
Thanks in advance for any good suggestions.
mchallinor
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Back to Terminal for that I'm afraid ... this command will output the list to a file on your desktop
find /Volumes/XSERVENAME -not -newermt 2008-01-01 -ls > ~/Desktop/list.txt
find /Volumes/XSERVENAME -not -newermt 2008-01-01 -ls > ~/Desktop/list.txt
The terminal is the most complete tool you'll need for file search and text manipulation. Unix was basically invented to do that.
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However, I'd like to search for file with a creation date < 01/01/2010 but I can seem to find any option to search all file with creation dates less than 2010.