spotlight

I thought I'd hop over to macosxhints.com and yes: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050501162147222&query=set+command-f - there's an article that at least lets me set the default command-f window to finding by name. Now can I have a tip for killing Spotlight in inline folder...

Spotlight is truly amazing. But it isn't able to seach text fields in a database (FMP 6 in this instance). I've tried to search on a basic text field for a last name in a simple address DB. The name isn't found. Is this because of the way FMP saves the file when closed? Perhaps compressed? I did...

does spotlight not index files in /system? i can't seem to find anything in there.

Whenever using the Spotlight Search inside Mail.app it won't find any emails when I select "Entire Message." Using From, To, and Subject it works fine though.

Can anyone help with problem? I have an 80GB USB external HD I bought before Tiger to backup everything. Now when I use spotlight it doesn't see my external HD. How can I change this? Thanks again, Paul

Is there a work around to get spotlight to index networked drives the same way it does local disks?

Open the Spotlight system preference, click the Privacy tab, click the plus button, and add the volume you want to reindex. Wait five minutes, select the volume in the privacy area, and click the minus button to remove it. Spotlight will index the volume again from the ground up. Note: Before...

I dont like Spotlight. I have no use for it since I dont have around 45.000 pictures/movies/documents etc. So I've decided to "disable" it by putting my entire harddrive into the "..prevent from searching these locations" in Spotlight System Preferences. But one thing is still bugging me. How do...

Why use Quicksilver when Spotlight is better? Anyway I can bind the control key so that it'll open up the spotlight search bar?

Been playing around with Spotlight. One of the things I was looking forward to doing was creating Smart Folders to match my iTunes Smart Playlists. I use Smart Playlists for all my organization, and insert little tags into my mp3s' comments for the sorting. Spotlight works, and gets the data...

Hello All.. Does anyone know of a workaround for spotlights indexing (CPU HOG) i would rather not have spotlight slowing me down to a crawl every HR. or so...??

This is mainly directed to something fryke said but I can't seem to find the thread containing that comment. Anyways, I can search for file names no problem. Not sure why fryke says you can't. For example any Excel file I can find by typing in the file name and it shows up in the Top Hit...

Does anyone know if spotlight bookmark searching can be configured. Does it work only for Safari, or are other browser bookmarks supported like launchbar can do? Thanks Ken

I have Launch Bar, and feel it is a great app. Now I was reading on CNet.com to active a spotlight search you have to press Command + Space. Those are the same commands for using Launch Bar. Now is there a way to define the command to use Spotlight?? Instead of Command, it would be...

How is Spotlight going to work in a server environment?

I have an external firewire drive. I want to remove it from spotlight indexing, so I go into spotlight preferences and it tells me under "privacy" to add any drive or folder that I don't want to be indexed. I can add my local hard drive (or any folder therein), but I can't add my external...

A new feature here at MacOSX.com is our daily talking points. Each day we will feature a talking points to motivate quality interaction on hot topics for the Mac Community. April 11 - In the upcoming version of Mac OS X (10.4) Tiger has a new search application called Spotlight. This rapid...

Hello, I am working on a metadata importer for RSS feeds. The idea is to include feed titles in spotlight search. When you click on a result it should show the related item in Safari (or other newsreeder). If some developers are interested in this project, please let me know below. Note...

http://www.blinkx.com has a software very similar to Spotlight that does not need Tiger !!!

While Spotlight is very cool, there is a slight issue with the effect of the indexing method on performance. I realized part of the Quicktime playback issues in 8A294 on older systems are actually due to Spotlight, not CoreVideo. When you first have Tiger installed, it starts a process called...