Re: Mail Search surrogate
Re: Mail Search surrogate
- Subject: Re: Mail Search surrogate
- From: Roger Howard <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:47:17 -0700
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 10:24:41 -0700, Gil Dawson <email@hidden> wrote:
> I had heard that there is a use for Spotlight, but I never knew what
> it was. I found the Spotlight/Search function in Mail to be very
> unpredictable, returning results that had nothing to do with what I
> had in mind, and sometimes returning nothing while I was looking
> right at a message that satisfied what I thought were very simple
> criteria.
Using mdfind is like using a command line SQL client - you can test queries
in their most raw state, so if you still find issues with the results, then
you can be confident it's with the underlying index (or Spotlight itself) -
you can force a rebuild of the index with mdutil as a first step to
resolving indexing issues if you think you've got them.
> I thought, "This can't be a shippable product." Then I thought,
> because other people keep talking about it, maybe I simply don't know
> how to use it.
Well, I don't have major issues with Spotlight in Mail, except that the
interface is simplistic... the results are always accurate for me. For more
complex queries, mdfind is excellent, as it exposes pretty well all of the
power of Spotlight.
> So now maybe it's time for me to find out how to use Spotlight properly.
Well, I wouldn't suggest that mdfind is the only *proper* way, but it's
definitely a useful tool for those comfortable with the shell and looking
to figure out what's going on with Spotlight - SL is very sophisticated
under the hood, but of course the UIs Apple provides tend towards the
simple.
-R
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