Reliably Broken » spotlight http://reliablybroken.com/b It's a blog: let's do funch! Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:27:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Lion: Spotlight still broken http://reliablybroken.com/b/2011/08/lion-spotlight-still-broken/ http://reliablybroken.com/b/2011/08/lion-spotlight-still-broken/#comments Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:32:40 +0000 david http://reliablybroken.com/b/?p=665 I’ve installed Mac OS X 10.7 (upgrading from 10.6) and was very interested to see how the new search tokens feature would work in Spotlight. But on my Mac it doesn’t. Here’s the result of a search for files whose name contains the text “david buxton”:

Note how none of the files in that list has a name containing the text “david buxton”.

Perhaps deleting the Spotlight index would fix things. Meh.

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Just thinking about having to find files on a Macintosh fills me with dread. Spotlight is useless for finding anything unless you know where it is already. I am in the half of the Venn diagram labelled believes names of files and folders have meaning. In the other half are the interface designers of Apple’s Spotlight technology.

Here’s a plum example of how a Spotlight window in Mac OS X 10.5.3 does an alphabetic sort-by-name of results when searching for files using File Name criteria.

Spotlight's notion of an alphabetical sort

I hate Spotlight. Makes me wonder what the point of all that amazing search engine technology is.

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