Spotlight on Mac OS X is a fast desktop search technology that allows users to organize and search for files based on metadata. Spotlight is extensible, allowing developers to provide metadata importers for their application’s documents.
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How to search a folder for a specific word on Mac
So I have a folder which has a bunch of files (source code) and other folders. I want to search this folder for a word, say, faceGroup, and get all the files that contain this word and also get locations of these files. How to perform this action…
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spotlight crashes in High Sierra
Spotlight crashes every time when I search anything starting with certain letters like "a", "c" or "e", while works fine for other letters like "b" or "d". I'm using a MacBook Air, this started to happen after I upgrade to High Sierra, but didn't…
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Mac Yosemite Spotlight - force it to index specific Library folders?
How can I get Spotlight to index a directory in the system>Library folder?
I'm trying to get Spotlight running 10.10.3 to index some folders in the Macintosh HD/Library folder. I'm not getting any search results from these folders so it appears…
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How search on external drive without adding applications to open with menu?
On OS X, when you allow an external drive to be indexed by Spotlight, this results in a very annoying bug: all applications that you have backed up on this drive will be added to the "open with" menu on OS X.
So right-clicking on a PNG will show all…
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