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Originally Posted by phenomshel
Would you please explain to me what I'm missing. then? I'm not being sarcastic, I truly want to know. I use it and get half a ton of completely unrelated files.
It's one of the few things I'm NOT liking about using Mac.
Oooops..never mind, BOb - It's not Spotlight that is the problem - unless the Spotlight that's on the apple bar up top and the search function in Finder are the same thing? Spotlight from the apple bar usually works okay - but the search bar at the top of Finder windows is useless, as I said above, all it does is bring up a ton of unrelated files.
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Yes, spotlight is the tool in the menu bar. But, the file search uses it's index.
You might want to go to finders preferences and set some settings. But default it searches the full MacHD rather than your current location. You can change it to default to current location.
You can also modify spotlight, what it indexes and such.
As someone requested there are some enhancements to spotlight's search. Hudaspot seems to be well regarded. Give it a try.
http://www.houdah.com/houdahSpot/index.html
BOB