Spotlight keyword to find webarchive files

Jun 14, '12 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: BF-H

In Lion's Spotlight, type kind:web and Spotlight returns webarchive files. Type kind:webarchive, however, and Spotlight does not return any files.

This behavior happens in Lion and Snow Leopard. I have not tested previous Mac OS X versions.

[kirkmc adds: Yes, this is what happens. Oddly, webarchives aren't listed in Apple's Help entry on Spotlight keywords, and, in this hint from 2007, based on a blog post of mine, it's not present either. I've written a fair amount about Spotlight for Macworld (notably this 2008 article which features a long list of such keywords), and never mentioned webarchives.]

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