Spotlight isn’t so good if it doesn’t look inside the file, as well as outside.
Update: It does now. No worries - just a quick re-index. Thanks [_].
Kevin Smith3rd December 2005
Ahem… libel?
Alex11th July 2007
I have Spotlight problems too. I have a G4 powermac running 10.4.9 and 2 hardrives. With previous tiger updates it used to index all day and it would take for ever. Now it’s not finding things which I know that are there but i’m lazy to go get. I thought that was the whole idea. Pinche Apple, you been liar to me!
Do I need to force index the drive?
Jeremy12th July 2007
Found this little blog with Google, because I feel the same way. Spotlight sucks. I use a dashboard widget called Sing That iTune! which basically just finds lyrics for songs that I play and saves them in iTunes. It also saves these lyrics in a folder as simple text files. Spotlight doesn’t search in these text files. I would love if it would, because then I could easily find songs I’m looking for just by entering lyrics in Spotlight.
Ahem… libel?
I have Spotlight problems too. I have a G4 powermac running 10.4.9 and 2 hardrives. With previous tiger updates it used to index all day and it would take for ever. Now it’s not finding things which I know that are there but i’m lazy to go get. I thought that was the whole idea. Pinche Apple, you been liar to me!
Do I need to force index the drive?
Found this little blog with Google, because I feel the same way. Spotlight sucks. I use a dashboard widget called Sing That iTune! which basically just finds lyrics for songs that I play and saves them in iTunes. It also saves these lyrics in a folder as simple text files. Spotlight doesn’t search in these text files. I would love if it would, because then I could easily find songs I’m looking for just by entering lyrics in Spotlight.