OS X Finder Search Question

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Sun Sep 25 23:44:04 EDT 2011


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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