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

From	Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me>
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 18:31 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
Message-ID	<slrns9b1rv.231d.g.kreme@m1mini.local> (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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In message <060520211806506328%nospam@nospam.invalid> nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> 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.

Disagree. I use it every day.

> for example, it fails miserably with partial matches. it doesn't search
> everywhere. the index can silently corrupt.

It searches everywhere if you tell it to search everywhere. It does well
with partial matches, and I've never had the index corrupt,. or not for
many years.

I mostly use mdfind from the command line.

The biggest issue, but it has nothing to do with Spotlight per se is
finding things stored in iCloud.

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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
            Re: macOS Big Sur's search doesn't find everything? Lewis <g.kreme@kreme.dont-email.me> - 2021-05-07 18:41 +0000
              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
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                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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