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10.5: How to refine Spotlight searches in 10.5
Authored by: dreamspy on Oct 25, '08 06:46:30AM

Great hint, but I'm not able to search the metadata like suggested in the hint. F.x. if I do a search like this:

type:.pdf NOT PageWidth:625

the search returns all pdf files, also those width Pagewirth 625.

Anyone?



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10.5: How to refine Spotlight searches in 10.5
Authored by: FlyBoy on Oct 25, '08 08:27:20AM

Try this instead:

kind:PDF NOT PageWidth:625

Norm



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10.5: How to refine Spotlight searches in 10.5
Authored by: mbrna on Oct 27, '08 08:52:32PM
When I type 'sun NOT set' into my spotlight search bar, it eliminates a particular file from the results because it contains "sun" and "NOT" but not "set".

It is as if the spotlight is searching for files that contain the three sets of characters: sun, NOT, and set.

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