It doesn’t do what it is supposed to do.
In this screenshot, I’m searching for the file that contains my Windows 7 Beta keys. See for yourself how well Spotlight performs. I keep thinking that I’ve been too harsh on Spotlight. I should give it another chance. Times passes, I think to myself, “where did I put that file with the Windows 7 keys? I’ll bet I named it something obvious. Let’s use spotlight!” Then it spits in my face.
One Reason to Dislike Spotlight
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3 responses to “One Reason to Dislike Spotlight”
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Sorry for kicking such an old post.
I find that I almost always have to do Show All and then select filename, implying that by default, the file contents are getting a more thorough search than the file name. It seems like it worked better in Snow Leopard, but I could just be imagining things. Probably a bad decision on the people at apple.
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Good hint. It seems that Spotlight is a bit more stable than it used to be. I also discovered that my Spotlight database was always partially corrupt. I think the problem was that I had lots of large source code folders and Spotlight, by default, will try to index all of those.
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