Re: Dear Finder search

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From: Matt McLeod
Subject: Re: Dear Finder search
Date: 00:06 on 03 Nov 2005
Stig Brautaset wrote:
> On 2 Nov 2005, at 11:25, Peter da Silva wrote:
> >>Please to be not sucky!
> >
> >Are you talking about classic Finder search in 10.3 or below, or  
> >the new All Your Search Belong To Spotlight in 10.4?
> 
> I was using the Finder search in 10.4; using Spotlight didn't even  
> cross my mind. Now I see that Spotlight shows me where files are,  
> which is good, and presumably it won't index stuff in .Trash, but I  
> don't see how I can do any complex searches with it.

The search in Finder as of 10.4 *is* Spotlight, it's just a
different interface to it.  You could probably stop it finding
things in the Trash by going to the Privacy tab of the Spotlight
prefs and adding that folder to the exclusion list, but it'll be
a blanket exclusion that applies to all searches.  Haven't tested
it, don't usually keep enough in Trash to care.

That the search interface doesn't do anything but AND is hateful.
Particularly given that it is apparently quite possible to frame
a query (using the Spotlight query language from the CLI, if memory
serves -- would take some Googling to confirm and get details,
can't be arsed at present) using a variety of operators -- it's
just the interface that's dumbed-down.

Matt

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