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Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
> In message <dg2ctlFshp5U2@mid.individual.net> 
>   Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> On 2016-01-17, Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>>> In message <dg0jmcFerf8U1@mid.individual.net> 
>>> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>>>> Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>>>>> In message <dfvg07F6d5vU1@mid.individual.net> 
>>>>> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> It includes all the ones you have permissions for.
> 
>> Certainly not all files on the system. In fact I would be (pleasantly)
>> surprised if it included anything outside of /System
> 
> It does. It will find files in /Library and ~/Library as well as
> /System.

Meh. Still nowhere near what I would expect regarding all system files.

>> But I know for a fact it excludes many things outside of /System.
> 
> Like? I haven't noticed any files missing, though I assume it does not
> search cache folders, anything specifically excluded in the Spotlight
> configuration, and maybe anything in /tmp.

/var, /usr, and so on could be considered system locations. It would be
nice to have full control over what is excluded. That said, I am fine with
system files (yes, even /System) being excluded by default since it would
needlessly clutter search results otherwise. It's not an important issue
for me. Like i said, use the right tool for the job. : )

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        Re: Spotlight anomaly Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-01-15 20:00 +0000
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        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
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      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
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            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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