10.4: Spotlight's missing help now available

May 03, '05 01:22:00PM

Contributed by: robg

Tiger only hintThough I've been quite impressed with the power of Spotlight (and similarly frustrated at times by some apparently basic missing features), I've felt that there must be more than what I was seeing. I'd read the Help files, browsed the web, but hadn't found a lot of useful information.

And now, thanks to Kirk McElhearn, I know more -- he pointed out that Apple posted a new Spotlight Tips page yesterday. This page (which will also go into the Links section here shortly) contains the kind of information I'd been looking for on Spotlight -- specifically the information on keyword and date searching.

Though there are still areas that need improvement (large indexes are still quite slow to be searched, for instance), knowing some of these advanced Spotlight methods helps quite a bit...

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