OS X Finder Search Question

[Bob Sneidar]

Apple doesn't assume you are an idiot. They assume a lot of people in general are idiots. And they are right. Here and there I encounter people who try to fix their computer themselves. I just did a wipe and reinstall for one guy whose system was acting up, and 3 days later he was back because 2 of his apps kept throwing errors. Turns out he tried to get into his permissions for his library and jack with them, with the result that he locked his apps out of being able to access or modify their own preferences and other files. 

Bob


On Sep 25, 2011, at 9:25 PM, stephen barncard wrote:

> I'm getting pretty sick of Apple assuming I'm an idiot and 'protecting me'.
> Lion is the epitome of this ethic. They  are 'fixing' a lot of crap that
> doesn't need fixing. I love 64 bit performance but at what price?  For
> someone that had a Mac on his desk in 1983 and an Apple II plus in 1980,
> this is a fall backward.
> 
> sqb
> 
> On 25 September 2011 20:44, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 9/25/11 7:20 PM, Pete wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks Mark.  IS that the Privacy tab of the Spotlight Preferences?  If
>>> so,
>>> I don ;t see anything there that would exclude that folder, unless there's
>>> some global option somewhere that excludes all system files?
>>> 
>> 
>> Apple doesn't believe you should need to find any system files, so it omits
>> those. In Lion it even hides the library folders completely, presumably to
>> give developers headaches. There may be a terminal command to change the
>> behavior, maybe a quick google can find it.
>> 
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>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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