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MoRU - Spotlight done right
And what's wrong with the way you can specify searches in the Finder? You know, by just going to the Finder and hitting CMD+F? You can specify as many options as you like, so the examples you gave are perfectly possible. It's still SpotLight, so you can save it to smart folders like there's no tomorrow, you don't have to install and pay for another app, it plays nice with all SpotLight-y things.
MoRU - Spotlight done right
...oh, and don't forget the Advanced Advanced options you get when you specify "other" search criteria! You can look for *any* piece of info SpotLight cares to store, including file name, creator, exif info, layers in OmniGraffle documents, MP3 encoding bitrate, pixel height and width... and the list goes on and on!
MoRU - Spotlight done right
I think you're missing something here. Please build me a query to find documents that contain only the exact string 'du,' and not 'during' or 'durable' or any other 'du...' word.
MoRU - Spotlight done right
To find exact words you just have to add " in front, i.e. "du !
MoRU - Spotlight done right
Well, searching user selected folders is actually quite easy. Let's say you want to search 2 and only 2 specific folders and nothing else. In the finder, command-f to bring up the finder's spotlight search dialog, then choose "other" for the search location. In the sheet that appears, uncheck your hard drive (or whatever may be there that is checked) and drag and drop the specific folder(s) (in this example 2 folders) into the sheet. When done, the portion of the finder window that shows "computer" "home" etc will update to show it's searching "2 places" Very simple.
MoRU - Spotlight done right
Works for me. I just put an alias to the "Saved Searches" folder in the Library on my dock so I can get to all of my saved searches ASAP.
MoRU - Spotlight done right
I don't feel that MoRU replaces Spotlight, it enhances it and the Finder search. (It's much nicer than the Finder Search.)
MoRU - Spotlight done right
Insofar as and/or search queries, my understanding is that is the search Spotlight defaults to. If I type "bob ray" (without the quotes) spotlight will search for docs that have bob in them, ray in them, and both bob and ray in them.If you are correct, then the author may have had it backwards, but the point is the same: you end up with too many irrelevant results that way. If you just want documents with both "bob" and "ray" in them, what do you do? What if you want documents with either "bob" or "ray", but that also must include "Carol"?
MoRU - Spotlight done right
I just did this using standard smart search features and duplicated the results in MoRU.
MoRU - Spotlight done right
Now, how to do "a" or "b" without "c" ?
MoRU - Spotlight done right
how do you put in logical operators like OR or AND in there? Having me search for one thing at a time in a smart folder is pretty useless, I need a folder that collects a number of things defined by different criteria like name is "bob" OR name is "jane". |
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