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| From | nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage |
| Subject | Re: macOS Big Sur's search doesn't find everything? |
| Date | 2021-05-06 18:41 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <060520211841190470%nospam@nospam.invalid> (permalink) |
| References | <OcydnQDfx-vMywn9nZ2dnUU7-SfNnZ2d@earthlink.com> <060520211746433917%nospam@nospam.invalid> <s71o6c$4nv$3@dont-email.me> <060520211806506328%nospam@nospam.invalid> <s71pcr$fb3$1@dont-email.me> |
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In article <s71pcr$fb3$1@dont-email.me>, Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> wrote: > >>>> I was searching "culture" (without quotation marks) for Office 365 > >>>> v16.48's Office filenames, but macOS Big Sur v11.3.1's Finder and > >>>> Spotlight doesn't find them in a 13" 2012 Intel MacBook Pro's SSD. It > >>>> doesn't show all of the files that I see when manually listing them in > >>>> Finder's Documents. > >>> > >>> totally normal. spotlight is not great at finding stuff. > >> > >> Actually, Spotlight is EXCELLENT at finding stuff. > > > > actually it's not. > > > > for example, it fails miserably with partial matches. > > Give an example... consider a bunch of documents and/or folders of medical specialties, such as toxicology, cardiology, physiology, anesthesiology, oncology, dermatology, radiology, neurology, and ophthalmology. you want to find all of them, so you search for common letters, in this case, 'ology'. since the query does not begin on a word boundary, the search results will not be particularly helpful, as in none. on the other hand, if the search query started on a word boundary, e.g., 'cardio', then it will find cardiology but not any of the others. you'd have to do multiple searches for each one, hopefully not forgetting any of them. > > it doesn't search > > everywhere. > > It does... ...if you ask it to. not where it hasn't indexed. > > the index can silently corrupt. > > Anything can. true, except that spotlight relies on an index, and if it's corrupted, it's not going to work particularly well. the real problem is that spotlight doesn't tell you that the index is corrupt, so you'll never know why the results aren't what you might expect. btdt.
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