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HoudahSpot - Enhance Spotlight's search powers
Authored by: johnsawyercjs on Apr 07, '08 02:57:36PM

I've been wondering how to add the columns for Size, Date Modified etc. back to Find/Spotlight's results under OS 10.5. I also keep wondering why Apple's continuous changes to Find/Spotlight, don't include any sensible consistency, instead boiling down to adding some features, while ripping out what most people look for in a Find utility, not least of which is having the default be Find By Name, not Find By Kind. Creating smart search folders is one partial way around some of these problems, but they don't always do the whole job, don't always work as expected (if at all), and most people will never venture into creating them, making do instead with what Apple foists on them, no matter how optimistic Apple may be about users' skills.



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HoudahSpot - Enhance Spotlight's search powers
Authored by: djimi on Jun 22, '08 03:54:00PM

Nice points. I've been using Macintosh OS since version 6. Version 10.5 Quick Look is the saving grace of this OS. I give not being able to sort by size an "F-" for this release. I spoke with the OS X (before it was released) devlopers from Apple via my work and got to meet with them able how Sherlock nee "Find File" had evolved from OS 7.5~OS 9. I spoke with them for about 30 minutes on the Find/Sherlock functionality. I can't believe after doing so many good things, that they went back to the stone age, and decided that to omit such a handy, integral, *basic* feature in searching. Please don't reply with an excuse for Apple. There isn't any excuse for this failure. Paying for software to do something that the OS should inherently do? Directory X is great, but again, this is what the Finder (hello -- what's the name of the OS GUI SHELL??) supposed to do.



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