Reunion 8 file finding question

[Glenna Rose]

Hoping someone can help with this!

I was one of those lucky souls who got the logic board iBook - those
of you who had one know exactly of what I speak. The last time mine
went, Apple had stopped replacing the logic boards. At first I could
still use an external monitor, but no longer. Using target mode, all
the files are copied onto an external hard drive, no problem, right?
Wrong, here's the rest of the story.

With Reunion 8, in 2003 (I think), I entered the family history,
complete with citations. The good part is that I exported it to put
on a web page; however that uses only the basic data but not the
citations.

In my ignorance, I did not realize that I would not be able to search
for a Reunion file by content or extension (which I officially learned
today). Searchlight does not recognize Reunion files. Because it has
been so long ago, I do not remember what I named the file. To truly
complicate, I apparently put it elsewhere than in the Reunion folder
(the default).

The basics of each record I can re-enter from the exported data but
have no citations, photo links, etc., which I definitely would like to
have.

IF I could open Reunion on the iBook, I would be able to locate the
file but am not able to do that at this point since the screen is out
because of the logic board. I have opened Reunion from other
computers using the iBook data but have not been able to locate it as
those files do not show up as "only" files and it is not in the
Reunion default folder.

Does anyone know of a way, other than moving the hard drive to another
iBook with a good logic board, that I can isolate the Reunion files
with some sort of search, sort, etc., so that I can find that file?

[Rory Bowman]

I think I can do that. And I *know* I can move the hard drive to
another machine or an external drive case. - Rory

Rory Bowman, Approve 71 team captain for Vancouver, Washington
bow...@pobox.com, (360) 666-7679, http://Approve71Vancouver.org
http://groups.google.com/group/approve71vancouver for volunteers

[Steven W Riggins]

You *might* have luck with searching for:

creator:R~U8

That is the creator code, found here: http://www.leisterpro.com/doc/version8/questions/answers/upgradeproblems.php

If that does not work, maybe a third party app that can search for
creator codes would help, I don't know of any

[Steven W Riggins]

Ah here you go!

From the Finder, Chose Find from the File menu.

Using the Kind popup, change it to custom:

From the custom dialog, search for Raw, choose Raw Query

in the raw query edit box, enter:

(kMDItemFSCreatorCode == "R~U8")

Make sure you search the entire Mac, and it *should* search the
external if the spotlight index is correct.

IF your document is still not found, try searching for:

(kMDItemFSTypeCode == "R~D8")

*if* that still doesn't work, try changing the 8's in those searches
to whatever version you think you created/edited the file with (7, 6, 5)

[Glenna Rose]

Got it!!!

Thank you, Steve. Oddly, though, I tried what you posted and found
nothing in spite of using it multiple ways (with and without parens,
different numbers). However, something changed somewhere, maybe
because I had done that, because then I searched for file type "Family
File" which I had done previously with no success and this time it
came up.

Numerous times I have said there are electronic gremlins though Rory
almost as many times insists there are no such things. This is an
example of them being at work again. There can be no other
explanation as to why it would come up in a search for "Family File"
when it did not previously.

And no, Rory, it is not a loose nut between the chair and the
keyboard.<g>

I refused to give up on this as I knew the file was there, I even
started looking at file icons because the data files have the Reunion
icon. There are so many thousands of files to look at the names of so
you can imagine how much time I had wasted doing this so far. My
personal pride (doesn't that go before a fall?) kept me looking rather
than ask Rory to do it for me; this was, after all, a simple file
find, right?

The file is named of all things, "Glenna et al." Never in my wildest
imagination would I have searched for that! The important thing is
that I have it and all the information within it. I will, of course,
need to relink photos but all my citations and notes will be there.
Why it showed up after I did the raw code searches I have no clue; I
am just glad it did. I am a happy camper. :-)

Love my Mac!!!