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Group view has crippled search... but no more!
Authored by: gabester on Jun 28, '06 11:37:59AM

This tip inspired me to try something... Apple-F, Search for Size Greater than 10000k... got the results, and hit Apple-2 to switch from Group view to List view.

I hadn't realized this was possible. I've been very frustrated about the seeming limitations of Tiger's Spotlight search, for example, an inability to sort files by size; and while maybe I just missed the obvious, I think I'm not the only one.
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Group view has crippled search... but no more!
Authored by: nedaf7 on Jun 29, '06 01:03:36AM

Strange, I just independently discovered this same thing within hours of your post...

It seems to me that while the concepts behind Spotlight are wonderful, the implementation leaves something to be desired. Namely, there are many uses which it would appear that Spotlight will not fulfill, such as making a smart folder that shows all documents with any color label (I had to manually edit the smart folder to change the && operators to || –aka OR- operators). Hopefully OS 10.5 will bring an improved implementation of Spotlight, with perhaps better performance as well (it shouldn't lock up before I've even finished typing the first term of my search).



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