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I am very puzzled with the results returns by Spotlight on macOS Ventura 13.5.1. I am trying to find all text and pdf files containing a sentence "in our house". It turns out that Spotlight does not lists files that contain this sentence and for which this sentence exists and is found within Preview.

I have tried to use mdfind as I have more confidence in what a command line command gives me back, but it turns out that I came to realize that:

mdfind -onlyin ~/Documents "house"

gives me list of files which does not show up when I use the command

mdfind -onlyin ~/Documents "ouse"

which is very puzzling to me as the "ouse" is a substring of "house". I suspect that spotlight has a weird behaviour with substring and with spaces that I don't find documented anywhere.

Do you know how spotlight works with respect to that?

InsideLoop
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  • @K J : In Preview which is part of macOS, we can search the PDF file, and "house" is found. So, I don't think that this is this kind of problem. – InsideLoop Aug 21 '23 at 13:18

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