Amazing, strange, and mystifying - SOLVED

Timothy Miller gandalf at doctortimothyMiller.com
Tue Jan 24 14:10:36 EST 2006


>
>Since I have switched to Path Finder, I have been very happy with is
>interface and features (virtually all of the normal Finder plus many more).
>Just last night I began to do a few comparison searches:
>
>result:  All files found by Path Finder... many cases of hundreds of missing
>files in Spotlight, esp if the search term is "chan" and is not the
>beginning of the file or folder name (redChannel, leftChannel)
>
>This is unacceptable, so Spotlight is relegated to building a fast list of
>"jpg" or "psd" and not regarded as a rigorous, exhaustive list.
>
>By the way, setting a folder to "private" in Spotlight preferences will hide
>from both the "content" indexing AND the file/folder searching.
>
>Thanks for your input
>
>Jim Ault
>Las Vegas
>Contrary to Spotlight, I am not fast, but I *am* reliable.


Oh! That explains it. I didn't know what Path Finder is.

Easy Find might be a free and quick alternative for users who don't 
need a Finder on steroids.

Tim



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