I use JuiceSSH (well, I use it for ssh, but it can also open a shell on the local device, so…)

Open a local shell, then

cd /storage/emulated/0

then use “find”, for example

find . -type f -iname “*.jpg” | more

Voidtools’ Everything for Android would be cool indeed. But iirc androids filesystem already has a global database of files, no? So shouldn’t any file manager be able to quickly find anything in there without walking the hierarchy?

Total Commander

thanks everyone for our ideas, in the past i’ve used dolphin (kde) with mtp support to search files, it works but you obviously need a linux box.

Blackberry used to have a “global device search” feature. I’d love something like that for Android.

Material Files at least has a search that seems to work, but it doesn’t clearly show all the result paths at once.

If you can mount the filesystem to your computer, you could use broot or anything you want from there.

MiXplorer. If you don’t already use it theres a bit of a learning curve but I just ran a quick test & it found a file 6 directories deep in /android/data/… with no problems at all

there is also ghost commander, looks nice at first glance

You could accomplish this with Tasker if you wanted to dip your toes into some programming.

I use FX and it can search for filenames