Try using Spotlight, top right hand corner of the Menu Bar, and see if that will find things for you.
It is very fast, or should be, and much more flexible than the regular Command + F method.
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The last few days, when I tried to find something on my hard drive or one of its folders, I found that though the little "wheel" turned around, that's all it did (on and on, and it never finished or found anything). That is true, whether I just enter a term in the search window or press Command-F.
Does it sound as though something is broken? I have to do a reinstall of Tiger? (Yikes, I hope not! I'd have to update to 10.4.10 from what's on my installation disks, which won't allow me to do anything but reinstall everything.) I did check the computer with Disk Utility and ran Disk Warrior before trying again.
By the way, I can search in any other software: Office, Firefox and so on, and I get results, just fine. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
jenny

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