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Re: Mail.app problem

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Bruce Esquibel <bje@ripco.com> wrote:
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>> That will take forever! I'd use Spotlight's mdfind command, which will
>> find matching items *much* more quickly:
> 
>> mdfind "phrase here"
> 
> Which does a wonderful job of finding files with the "phrase here" in the
> filename but does nothing to find content within a file.

You couldn't be more wrong. You've apparently never actually used Spotlight
/ mdfind if that's what you think. The entire *point* of Spotlight is that
it searches the actual *contents* of files rather than just file names! And
that includes mail, contacts, calendar events, and all sorts of other
things that don't necessarily have files that are accessible as such
(databases and so on).

> I'd use the find/grep command 

And your results will take *much* longer to obtain and will be less useful
than with mdfind.

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JR

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