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MoRU - Spotlight done right
Authored by: dille on Feb 28, '06 12:51:57PM

...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!

Ahem. Anyway, sorry about the replying to myself. =]



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MoRU - Spotlight done right
Authored by: robg on Feb 28, '06 01:20:56PM

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.

And try to build a search in the Finder to search two, and only two, folders at the same time, while attaching a series of additional conditions, some of which are "OR" conditions and some of which are "AND" conditions.

It's just not possible, unless you want to work in Raw Query mode and have a depth of knoweldge of KMDItem types ... unless I'm the one who's missing something now! :)

-rob.



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MoRU - Spotlight done right
Authored by: alfrank on Feb 28, '06 02:43:35PM

To find exact words you just have to add " in front, i.e. "du !



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MoRU - Spotlight done right
Authored by: murph on Feb 28, '06 04:25:50PM

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.

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.

For searching specific terms, use quotes. "Lib" will search for docs that contain lib exactly and not include results where lib is partially extracted from a word, i.e., library.

Spotlight works fine for me right out of the box.



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MoRU - Spotlight done right
Authored by: ewelch on Feb 28, '06 07:42:33PM

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.

Thanks for saving me $10!

---
Eric

Ernest Hemingway's writing reminds me of the farting of an old horse. - E.B. White



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MoRU - Spotlight done right
Authored by: simbalala on Feb 28, '06 08:09:00PM

I don't feel that MoRU replaces Spotlight, it enhances it and the Finder search. (It's much nicer than the Finder Search.)

I still use Spotlight for simple searches, MoRU is too bulky for me to leave it running constantly. Sure you can do without it but it has some nice features.



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MoRU - Spotlight done right
Authored by: bkemper on Mar 03, '06 09:11:04AM
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"?

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MoRU - Spotlight done right
Authored by: philcozz on Mar 15, '06 10:59:48AM

I just did this using standard smart search features and duplicated the results in MoRU.

Step 1:
Kind = others (specifically, "Microsoft Entourage message pointer" thanks to the new 11.2.3 update!).

Step 2:
Contents = a|b c

This gave me 56 Entourage e-mails that contained either "a" OR "b" in the content AND "c"

When I created the smart group in MoRU to do the same, I got 56 e-mails.

I am not saying that MoRU isn't a good product, I just saw this as a challenge to figure out if I could do this!

Best.



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MoRU - Spotlight done right
Authored by: philcozz on Mar 15, '06 11:09:30AM

Now, how to do "a" or "b" without "c" ?





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