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10.4: Finder searches fail for Spotlight-excluded drives
http://systemsboy.blogspot.com/2005/05/getting-back-to-search-basics.html
10.4: Finder searches fail for Spotlight-excluded drives
You will also find this website useful...helps you pull just your backup drives out of Spotlight's reach...
10.4: Finder searches fail for Spotlight-excluded drives
Good resources, both of these (thanks!). I will certainly use mdutil for my part then. I actually tried that for a while, but did not do any searches against the drive in question so that I didnt discover the difference in behaviour from the Privacy tab.
10.4: Finder searches fail for Spotlight-excluded drives
Note that while the hint in that link will make SpotLight, Finder's search field and Command+F to fall back to Panther-like behaviour (that is, "name contains…" ignoring metadata and content), you will be loosing search capabilities in Mail 2.
10.4: Finder searches fail for Spotlight-excluded drives
Just to be clear, you don't lose ALL search capabilities in Mail. You only lose search-by-message-contents (or "Entire Message" as it's called in Mail) capabilties. Searching by to, from, and subject all continue to work.
10.4: Finder searches fail for Spotlight-excluded drives
Thanks for this tip. I thought I could fix an issue when disabling spotlight, but unfortunately this did not help - however I keep Spotlight disabled and keep the Panther-like search.
10.4: Finder searches fail for Spotlight-excluded drives
Good point. I have often been stymied searching for files with a partial name which does not include the first part of the name. |
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