[dmytroi]

I was looking for Everything for Mac and tbh I can't say Spotlight is even close. Sure Spotlight works great for apps and files in ~/Documents/, but I find it failing when I'm trying to find some obscure file in /Library/ or with-in Xcode SDK's.

Is Alfred good in this sense?

[thirdsun]

I’m using Alfred and you can add locations to search in, but I’m pretty sure you can also do that for Spotlight. It shouldn’t be a problem either way.

[edanm]

I used to use Alfred for this, but it's not really the same as Everything. I'm not sure why - something about the speed, results or maybe just the interface itself.

[sk5t]

Some of the Windows tools use the NTFS / USN change journal for very fast access to metadata without traipsing across the rest of the filesystem. I dunno if APFS has such a thing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USN_Journal