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Why Spotlight?


  • Subject: Why Spotlight?
  • From: Luther Fuller <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:37:12 -0600

Almost all day, yesterday, I toiled away at adding a new handler to a script. Late last evening, after chasing out a few bugs ... it worked! It copied about 65 files to a folder. While checking thru this folder, it occurred to me that it would be very useful to be able to search just that folder for file name, content or comment.

I seldom use Spotlight, but, this time ... why not? I spent a frustrating hour trying to find files in that folder that that I knew existed there, because I can see them, only to have Spotlight tell me "0 items found". I felt like an ignorant klutz until I realized ...

Mail message files (.emlx) which are not located within the user's / Library/Mail/ folder are INVISIBLE to Spotlight.

Spotlight is useless! Any further comment by me would be an off-topic rant ... Is there a Spotlight Users List?

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