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10.4: Limit Spotlight searches to filenames only
Authored by: kmacdonald on Jul 23, '05 02:45:51PM

I think the key here is that Spotlight starts searching as soon as you start typing. So, if you want to find all files with the words "test" and "tested" and "tester" for example, type "test

This open-ended search seems to recognize by the first quotation mark that you want to only search file names. This issue has been driving me up the wall but since I tried the open ended quote it's worked fine. I just discovered this today so I haven't given it a real thorough testing but so far so good!



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