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Spotlight does not search everything
Authored by: hamarkus on Feb 05, '07 02:57:01PM

Spotlight does not search a number of directories (or should I say it only searches a number of directories). In particular, it generaly does not look at system files or directories and almost certainly not within .app packages.

There have been instructions at to how force Spotlight to look at stuff it would normally not look at but even after following them I had the strong impression that Spotlight would not search my system files (maybe it cannot be done, or the instruction were incomplete, or I did not apply them correctly, or subsequent updates broke things again).

What I had used was an app named Spotlightindexer.app, which right now even refuses to start (it predates my Intel machine, which could be the reason).

If you can figure out how to use grep on multiple files (or better whole directories), you should be able to find your genres.



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Spotlight does not search everything
Authored by: osxpounder on Feb 07, '07 09:23:42AM

Sure, I could make a research project out of finding out why Spotlight doesn't find the file .... or one of you who already found the file could just tell me where you found it. :)

BTW, I saw the tip about changing the genre "1059" in iTunes. Sure, we can do that .... but if we want to remove more than one or two genres, not reassign them, it gets cumbersome with the iTunes interface. Considered versus editing a text file, I'd rather edit the text file.



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