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10.4: Set Command-F to search by 'Name Contains'
Authored by: dfa4 on May 11, '05 10:29:27AM

am i missing something here. it seems to me that the default "name contains" search is already applicable by typing in the keywords in the Find windows search field. it seems superfluous or duplicative to add a name contains criteria to the search unless you are planning to save the search. am i not right? (actually, i know i am right, but i want to appear modest ;-)

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10.4: Set Command-F to search by 'Name Contains'
Authored by: mahakali on May 12, '05 11:13:05AM

That's what I was thinking. I use toolbar search (command-option-f) when I need to search by name. I only use command F for advanced search. But maybe some people are used to using command-f for searching.



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10.4: Set Command-F to search by 'Name Contains'
Authored by: Hal Itosis on May 12, '05 03:23:05PM
dfa4 writes:
> am i missing something here. it seems to me that
> the default "name contains" search is already
> applicable by typing in the keywords in the Find
> windows search field.


You certainly are missing something. Spotlight is everywhere.
Typing in the search-slot in Finder window toolbars is *NOT*
limited to "name contains" searching. 90% of the results are
content-based. (Tiger != Panther).

> it seems superfluous or duplicative to add a name contains
> criteria to the search unless you are planning to save the
> search. am i not right? (actually, i know i am right, but
> i want to appear modest ;-)


Wrong. No one is "adding" anything. Apple already provides the
Name (contains/begins with/ends with/is) field so we can limit
Spotlight's lust for content-based searching. What this hint is
trying to do is make it so the Name field appears automatically
at the top (so we don't have to manually mouse it ourselves all
the time).



mahakali writes:
> That's what I was thinking. I use toolbar search
> (command-option-f) when I need to search by name.


And did you not notice the (probably over 700) items in the results
list that DIDN'T contain the text you typed in their names!? Toolbar
searches find anything Spotlight wants them to find (not names only).

Myself, I WISH you guys were right... but it just ain't so.

-HI-

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10.4: Set Command-F to search by 'Name Contains'
Authored by: jph000 on May 19, '05 08:48:02PM

"... am i missing something here. it seems to me that the default "name contains" search is already applicable by typing in the keywords in the Find windows search field. it seems superfluous or duplicative to add a name contains criteria to the search ..."

I thought so at first also. However, this week in testing Spotlight, I've found that I'm getting different results -- using the same search string, I'm getting different results using a Finder Window (search box) and cmd-f Name Contains search. All of which is puzzling and frustrating. (Yes, I've reindexed the volumes in question more than once.) I can be looking directly at a picture folder window, and cmd-f will find all the jpg files with names containing the substring, while the Finder Window search box will not.



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