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Re: macOS Big Sur's search doesn't find everything?

From Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no>
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 15:08 -0700
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <s71pcr$fb3$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
References <OcydnQDfx-vMywn9nZ2dnUU7-SfNnZ2d@earthlink.com> <060520211746433917%nospam@nospam.invalid> <s71o6c$4nv$3@dont-email.me> <060520211806506328%nospam@nospam.invalid>

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On 2021-05-06 3:06 p.m., nospam wrote:
> In article <s71o6c$4nv$3@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...

> it doesn't search
> everywhere. 

It does... ...if you ask it to.

> the index can silently corrupt.

Anything can.

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macOS Big Sur's search doesn't find everything? ant@zimage.comREMOVETHIS1ST (Ant) - 2021-05-06 15:49 -0500
  Re: macOS Big Sur's search doesn't find everything? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-05-06 17:46 -0400
    Re: macOS Big Sur's search doesn't find everything? Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> - 2021-05-06 14:47 -0700
      Re: macOS Big Sur's search doesn't find everything? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-05-06 18:06 -0400
        Re: macOS Big Sur's search doesn't find everything? Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> - 2021-05-06 15:08 -0700
          Re: macOS Big Sur's search doesn't find everything? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-05-06 18:41 -0400
            Re: macOS Big Sur's search doesn't find everything? Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> - 2021-05-06 15:57 -0700
              Re: macOS Big Sur's search doesn't find everything? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-05-07 20:33 -0400
                Re: macOS Big Sur's search doesn't find everything? Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> - 2021-05-07 19:47 -0700
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              Re: macOS Big Sur's search doesn't find everything? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-05-07 20:33 -0400
                Re: macOS Big Sur's search doesn't find everything? Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2021-05-08 02:33 +0000
                Re: macOS Big Sur's search doesn't find everything? Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> - 2021-05-07 19:48 -0700
                Re: macOS Big Sur's search doesn't find everything? Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2021-05-08 09:53 +0000
                Re: macOS Big Sur's search doesn't find everything? Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2021-05-08 23:24 +0000
                Re: macOS Big Sur's search doesn't find everything? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2021-05-08 13:39 -0400
                Re: macOS Big Sur's search doesn't find everything? Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2021-05-08 17:50 +0000
                Re: macOS Big Sur's search doesn't find everything? Alan Baker <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> - 2021-05-08 12:28 -0700
        Re: macOS Big Sur's search doesn't find everything? Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2021-05-07 18:31 +0000
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