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10.4: Quickly close Spotlight search and results
Authored by: pnoman on Sep 05, '05 06:21:56PM

Thanks for the idea -- but MUCH more useful to me would be a way to stop/abort a Spotlight search, but still keep the window open! Cmd-period, Esc, etc, CLOSE the window, rather than just stopping the search ( funny, I thought Cmd-W was supposed to close windows, but it seems consistency isn't Apple's strong suit these days ...).

Specifically, I thought this might be a way to stop the damn thing from wasting so much time searching on a few letters until I can get my full search string in (thanks a bunch, Apple). Anybody know if this is possible? Sorry if this is repetitious -- I'm new on the site, and couldn't find anything about this.

Also, Spotlight's latest trick is telling me there aren't any files on my hard drives created or modified before 12/31/2000. Funny, because I can easily find tens of thousands of them in my boot disk Documents folder, carried over from OS9. I can find OS9 files created after that date, but not before.

Does Spotlight have a Y2K problem? (remember that?). Should I delete Spotlight preference files? Or just trash the index files and start all over?



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