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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 | 2021-05-07 20:33 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <070520212033547025%nospam@nospam.invalid> (permalink) |
| References | (2 earlier) <s71o6c$4nv$3@dont-email.me> <060520211806506328%nospam@nospam.invalid> <s71pcr$fb3$1@dont-email.me> <060520211841190470%nospam@nospam.invalid> <s71s99$cd$1@dont-email.me> |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
In article <s71s99$cd$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. > > Sorry, but you're wrong. the above example works exactly as i described. i tested it prior to posting. it's a very simple search that should not fail. try the same set of words in bbedit. a search for 'ology' will find all of them. if you search for 'col', it will find only toxicology and oncology. both exactly as expected > "Name ends with" works great. additional steps that should not be needed. > > 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. > > It indexes everywhere. no it doesn't. > >>> 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. > > And the gain is that searches are nearly instantaneous. other alternatives are also nearly instantaneous, but more importantly, they are more reliable. > Tradeoffs. reliability should never be traded off. you also snipped the part where i mentioned about the index being silently corrupted, which turned out to be the cause of ant's problem. he's not the only one who has had that happen.
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Re: macOS Big Sur's search doesn't find everything? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-05-07 20:33 -0400
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