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10.6: Disable Spotlight and remove Spotlight icon from menu
"Find Any File" is massively better *for my needs* than using Spotlight. i need to frequently find files that Spotlight refuses to admit even existing. it also returns results quicker the majority of the time.
10.6: Disable Spotlight and remove Spotlight icon from menu
You're serious? I use spotlight as an app launcher, and it's so fast that I don't even look at it before hitting enter. Usually just one or two characters.
10.6: Disable Spotlight and remove Spotlight icon from menu
I drill through folders, because I know where things are. I also use docked folders and aliases. This is still quicker for me than Spotlight.
10.6: Disable Spotlight and remove Spotlight icon from menu
Ah, that's your problem there... everything (particularly any indexed search) will be a lot slower than it should be if your drive is 98% full. I realize that for whatever reason, you may not be able to get some extra storage and/or free up some space, but I'm just pointing out that that's definately slowing things down (assuming it's your system drive - I apologize for misunderstanding if it's not). And I'm sure you probably know all this, but I just wanted to mention it because I was surprised to see people had time to open a folder (even if it's in the dock) and navigate anywhere in the time that it takes Spotlight to return. As I mention below, Spotlight has never taken more than 3 seconds to find a file for me (by filename or by contents - usually < 1sec for a filename search), but then I don't think I've ever gone below about 10% (18GB) free.
10.6: Disable Spotlight and remove Spotlight icon from menu
I always use command + R to reveal in Finder. Is it changed in Snow Leopard to just command + enter? Or do both still work?
10.6: Disable Spotlight and remove Spotlight icon from menu
And as far as usability, command-space from any focus is a pretty big step forward from OS9, OSX before spotlight and Windows search.
10.6: Disable Spotlight and remove Spotlight icon from menu
I read a post somewhere (on here I think) about doing boolean (not/or) searched in spotlight. Never tried it so I don't know if it works in Snow Leopard, but I believe the pipe (|) was an "or".
10.6: Disable Spotlight and remove Spotlight icon from menu
Why is "command-space" better than "command-F"?
10.6: Disable Spotlight and remove Spotlight icon from menu
Convenience. As edified says, you can do cmd-space from anywhere. For cmd-F you have to be in the Finder. ( Plus, arguably my favorite feature added in Leopard is the calculater in Spotlight! =) )
10.6: Disable Spotlight and remove Spotlight icon from menu
i knew someone would bring up application launching and completely ignore the other completely valid issues i have with Spotlight. (finding hidden files / finding files within packages or files within the 'magic' folders / chewing up hard drives / indexing any and all disks i ever plug into a machine / mds & mdimport polling the drives 24/7 for no good reason / etc etc etc).
10.6: Disable Spotlight and remove Spotlight icon from menu
I agree Spotlight may not be the tool for a Power User; as with most of the Mac's features though, it is a great tool and huge time saver built into the OS for the casual user/newbie. And it's awesome that there are so many little features like this built into the OS! (Can you tell I was previously a Windows user?) Let me tell you, after dealing with the non-indexed Windows file search for years, Spotlight is a dream! I know it doesn't have everything, but I finally found a hint on here explaining that you can search System folders/files by opening a search in the Finder (cmd-F I think) and selecting other - system files for the extra search criteria or something. Unfortunately you still can't do this from the menu ber AFAIK but I've saved the system files rule in a smart folder and I use it all the time - works great! I'm not sure why Spotlight is slow for you... as the last guy said, it always returns all results almost instantly (definately within 3 seconds at it's slowest) for me.
10.6: Disable Spotlight and remove Spotlight icon from menu
I find Spotlight indispensable tool, and I use it all the time. I don't have the same issues you do with spotlight. The minimal initial indexing overhead is negligible, and spotlight rarely uses the CPU or hard drive after that. And you can turn off indexing for external hard drives that you often connect and disconnect. |
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