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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 15:57 -0700 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <s71s99$cd$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (1 earlier) <060520211746433917%nospam@nospam.invalid> <s71o6c$4nv$3@dont-email.me> <060520211806506328%nospam@nospam.invalid> <s71pcr$fb3$1@dont-email.me> <060520211841190470%nospam@nospam.invalid> |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
On 2021-05-06 3:41 p.m., nospam wrote: > In article <s71pcr$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. Sorry, but you're wrong. "Name ends with" works great. > > 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. > >>> 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. Tradeoffs.
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