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| 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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