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I use spotlight as an app launcher, and it's so fast that I don't even look at it before hitting enter. Usually just one or two characters. Who even drills through folders anymore?

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I just type anything related to the file I want and I nail the file in seconds. The most useful things in spotlight are typing a partial query, space and another part of the query. It's a really fast "and". The other handy thing is command-enter to show in finder rather than launch.

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I understand that spotlight isn't the perfect for everything but I think you're stuck in "Alta Vista" days when everyone else is using Google. Hardly a gimmick, modern spotlight is a powertool. Still I'd disable it if I didn't use it ;. I drill through folders, because I know where things are.


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I also use docked folders and aliases. This is still quicker for me than Spotlight. At this point, organization is king.

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Ah, that's your problem there And I'm sure you probably know all this, but I just wanted to mention it because I was surprised to see people had time to open a folder even if it's in the dock and navigate anywhere in the time that it takes Spotlight to return. Or do both still work? And as far as usability, command-space from any focus is a pretty big step forward from OS9, OSX before spotlight and Windows search.

The Finder's spotlight interface, while it doesn't include OR, is hardly difficult, very capable and better than most. Never tried it so I don't know if it works in Snow Leopard, but I believe the pipe was an "or". Why is "command-space" better than "command-F"? You speak like someone who's never even used OS 9, or for that matter, Alta Vista. As edified says, you can do cmd-space from anywhere. For cmd-F you have to be in the Finder. Plus, arguably my favorite feature added in Leopard is the calculater in Spotlight!

And it's awesome that there are so many little features like this built into the OS! Can you tell I was previously a Windows user? Let me tell you, after dealing with the non-indexed Windows file search for years, Spotlight is a dream! Unfortunately you still can't do this from the menu ber AFAIK but I've saved the system files rule in a smart folder and I use it all the time - works great! I'm not sure why Spotlight is slow for you I find Spotlight indispensable tool, and I use it all the time. I don't have the same issues you do with spotlight. The minimal initial indexing overhead is negligible, and spotlight rarely uses the CPU or hard drive after that.

And you can turn off indexing for external hard drives that you often connect and disconnect. And when I want to find system files, I fire up Terminal with Spotlight: By using our site, you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Cookie Policy , Privacy Policy , and our Terms of Service. In the last few days the spotlight 's calculator doesn't work. It will search and return results, but not the numerical one.

I found only several references to this type of problem, all dealing with older OS' versions.

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I did try defaults write com. Any ideas? By clicking "Post Your Answer", you acknowledge that you have read our updated terms of service , privacy policy and cookie policy , and that your continued use of the website is subject to these policies. It just doesn't report everything in the index unless the appropriate criteria are added and then still misses some items. Good once in a while for searching Mail or getting to an App and a few other things, but I've found EasyFind or FAF much more useful than Spotlight, which, along with maybe finding what I'm looking for, comes up with absolutely insane, totally random results almost all the time.

Usually very hit or miss. They keep crippling it, so I normally rely on using the Terminal's locate command, since I mostly search for things by name. Do note that I use an uncrippled version of locate. Jul 28, 4: Aug 1, 2: Rather than locate - whose index won't automatically get updated - use mdfind.


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