Jun 27, '05 08:42:00AM • Contributed by: Deut3221
This is a pretty lame hint, but if you want to dramatically boost the speed of Spotlight for frequently-used searches, assign a short, unique name to the application or document in the Spotlight Comments field.
For example, I assigned the following "Comments":
- Microsoft Word: mdoc
- Microsoft Excel: mxls
- Microsoft Powerpoint: mppt
- Apple Backup: abk
- ... and so on
Of course, you can continue assigning unique names (as others have helpfully suggested) to any files and/or apps that you frequently open. The point is short and unique to minimize the number of hits and improve the speed. Hope this is useful to someone...
