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App to find by content that really works?
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Hi, I would like to find an application that can search text files by content that really works. For some reason Spotlight doesn't really work for that. I tried Greppie, which is a bit better, but it misses a lot of entries. I have a folder containing over 1000 text files for a total of over 14 MB and I need to find every instance of a given word, and I have yet to find a solution that works. Do you know one? Thank you!
For the records, I already tried to put the folder in Spotlight "ignore list" and removing it from there to force a re-indexing.
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Posting Junkie
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Spotlight *should* work.
How is t broken? Do you have the text folder within your home folder, or is it somewhere else on your hard drive?
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Originally Posted by analogika 
Spotlight *should* work.
How is it broken? Do you have the text folder within your home folder, or is it somewhere else on your hard drive?
It's currently on my Desktop, which is technically a subfolder of my home folder. It's broken in the sense that it doesn't return any result when I search for terms that are clearly present in the text files.
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D'oh! that was stupid.. the files were using a custom extension but were really text files, so by renaming them to end in .txt, Spotlight is working properly!
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Posting Junkie
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Wow.
That's...kinda stupid.
Not sure if it's really Spotlight being stupid or just a stupid situation brought on by a combination of unhappy circumstances (Spotlight only indexing text in files it knows can contain text, and the creator of those files not making them obvious as plain-text files)...
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In the Get Info dialog, the Finder lists the kind as "text document", they sport the same icon as plain text files and they open with TextEdit by default.. Strange! The only difference with the new .txt extension is that the kind is now "plain text document"
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What was the old extension?
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Ah. OK, that makes sense then. Minor bug in Spotlight, if you ask me - send it in using the OS X Feedback function.
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In a pinch, a "grep -r" will always find stuff for you.
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Update: under Leopard, Spotlight finds every occurence correctly, even in files using the original suffix of .log !
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