Re: Why Spotlight?
Re: Why Spotlight?
- Subject: Re: Why Spotlight?
- From: John Baltutis <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:07:42 -0800
On 01/31/07, Luther Fuller <email@hidden> 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?
You can always add items to the include array within the _rules.plist file
buried within /.Spotlight-V100 / that controls Spotlight's behavior. The
defaults are:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>EXCLUDE</key>
<array/>
<key>INCLUDE</key>
<array/>
<key>NOTE</key>
<string>Specify paths to include or exclude, preceeding rules which
target user-homes with ~/</string>
</dict>
</plist>
Here's what I'm running on my machine:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd";>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>EXCLUDE</key>
<array/>
<key>INCLUDE</key>
<array>
<string>/System</string>
<string>/Library</string>
<string>/etc</string>
<string>/private</string>
<string>/usr</string>
<string>/bin</string>
<string>/sbin</string>
</array>
<key>NOTE</key>
<string>Specify paths to include or exclude, preceeding rules which
target user-homes with ~/</string>
</dict>
</plist>
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