Re: Why Spotlight?
Re: Why Spotlight?
- Subject: Re: Why Spotlight?
- From: Adam Bell <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:21:39 -0400
For some reason, Apple made provisions for enabling Spotlight in
Safari bookmarks, the Address Book, and iCal by creating special
caches for them - single metadata files of calendar events, AB
persons, and bookmarks. These are kept in
~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari, ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/iCal/,
and ~/Library/Caches/com.Apple.AddressBook/Metadata/. They didn't do
that for Mail apparently (perhaps for security reasons), so as you
point out, Mail is not easy to search (I use Eudora, which is).
Adam
At 6:37 AM -0600 1/31/07, Luther Fuller wrote:
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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