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Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> In message <dfvg07F6d5vU1@mid.individual.net> 
>   Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> isw <isw@witzend.com> wrote:
>>> In article <dftv8cFp1lkU1@mid.individual.net>,
>>> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
>>>>> Spotlight is one of the most obnoxious features Apple ever came out with 
>>>>> as far as I'm concerned. 
>>>> 
>>>> Not me. I find Spotlight quite useful. And I'm not alone. It's a good thing
>>>> Apple doesn't design operating systems just fit little, old you. : )
>>>> 
>>>>> I use Spotless (probably isn't even available 
>>>>> on the recent systems) to get rid of it -- both in the menu bar and in 
>>>>> the background -- and EasyFind if I need to find something.
>>>> 
>>>> EasyFind is nowhere near as fast since it must scan files at the time of
>>>> search - especially when searching for content inside of files.
>>> 
>>> Yes, it is slow (as would be any search that hadn't done a lot of prior 
>>> Spotlight-style indexing), but it has the wonderful advantage of 
>>> searching *everything, everywhere*, as near as I can tell.
>>> 
>>> I sure wish Spotlight had an option for doing that.
> 
>> Spotlight is designed primarily for casual searches of high-level
>> documents. Most folks aren't interested in having various system logs,
>> cache files, internals, and so on appear in casual Spotlight search
>> results, which is why system files are excluded. 
> 
> But you can easily include them if you want.
> 
> <https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202121>

I don't think that includes all of them - just a subset.

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Spotlight anomaly John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2016-01-14 23:25 -0500
  Re: Spotlight anomaly Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-01-15 08:54 -0500
    Re: Spotlight anomaly John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2016-01-15 12:49 -0500
      Re: Spotlight anomaly John Somerset <somerset@nospam.com> - 2016-01-15 14:50 -0500
        Re: Spotlight anomaly Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-01-15 20:00 +0000
      Re: Spotlight anomaly Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-01-16 19:18 -0500
    Re: Spotlight anomaly super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> - 2016-01-15 20:20 -0600
      Re: Spotlight anomaly JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2016-01-15 22:40 -0500
        Re: Spotlight anomaly Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-01-16 04:22 +0000
      Re: Spotlight anomaly Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-01-16 04:29 +0000
        Re: Spotlight anomaly isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2016-01-16 09:50 -0800
          Re: Spotlight anomaly Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-01-16 18:20 +0000
            Re: Spotlight anomaly Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-01-17 02:45 +0000
              Re: Spotlight anomaly Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-01-17 04:30 +0000
                Re: Spotlight anomaly Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-01-17 07:13 +0000
                Re: Spotlight anomaly Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-01-17 20:46 +0000
                Re: Spotlight anomaly Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-01-18 01:39 +0000
                Re: Spotlight anomaly Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-01-18 04:17 +0000
                Re: Spotlight anomaly Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-01-18 10:35 +0000
                Re: Spotlight anomaly Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-01-18 16:05 +0000
              Re: Spotlight anomaly isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2016-01-16 21:02 -0800
                Re: Spotlight anomaly Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-01-17 07:16 +0000
      Re: Spotlight anomaly Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2016-01-16 19:16 -0500
        Re: Spotlight anomaly Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-01-17 00:20 +0000
          Re: Spotlight anomaly dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2016-01-17 12:59 +1100
        Re: Spotlight anomaly Elden Fenison <usenet@moondog.org> - 2016-01-31 23:10 -0600
          Re: Spotlight anomaly Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-02-01 18:06 +0000
      Re: Spotlight anomaly John Albert <j.albert@snet.net> - 2016-01-17 11:55 -0500
        Re: Spotlight anomaly Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2016-01-17 12:26 -0500
        Re: Spotlight anomaly Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-01-17 18:07 +0000
        Re: Spotlight anomaly isw <isw@witzend.com> - 2016-01-17 10:20 -0800
        Re: Spotlight anomaly super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> - 2016-01-17 23:43 -0600
          Re: Spotlight anomaly Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-01-18 06:11 +0000
            Re: Spotlight anomaly super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> - 2016-01-18 14:14 -0600
              Re: Spotlight anomaly Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-01-18 20:50 +0000
              Re: Spotlight anomaly Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-01-19 04:22 +0000
          Re: Spotlight anomaly Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-01-18 10:36 +0000
            Re: Spotlight anomaly super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> - 2016-01-18 13:52 -0600
              Re: Spotlight anomaly Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-01-18 20:48 +0000

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