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alex627 · Jul 1, 2005, 12:09 AM

Congratulations to all those who have found Spotlight so revolutionary. I am sorry that I can not join you in your fun.

Spotlight seems to have found a small fraction of my files and folders since I installed it a couple of weeks ago. Figures. The one new truly useful new feature of this OS update and it doesn't work for me.

Am I the only one that can't find files with Spotlight that I can find myself by opening folders?!

LAME.

mAxximo · Jul 1, 2005, 10:59 AM

No, you're not the only one. Lame, indeed.
Granted 10.4.2 is taking this long because they're too busy fixing stuff like that...

Randman · Jul 1, 2005, 11:19 AM

Maxi is a troll and any of his posts should be ignored.

How did you install Tiger? Did you try to force a reindex? What is your Mac?

Have you tried the Kind: search or customizing the search parameters in Preferences?

Millennium · Jul 1, 2005, 11:22 AM

Out of curiosity, did you tell Spotlight not to index anything?

chris v · Jul 1, 2005, 12:20 PM

Here's what I did when I had this problem: I added my drive to the "privacy" pane in the prefs, then removed it again, causing it to re-index.

/helpful

mAxximo · Jul 1, 2005, 06:44 PM

(double post)

mAxximo · Jul 1, 2005, 06:48 PM

Cultman is a silly brainwashed fanboi and all of his posts should be ignored. Whatever happens it will always be your fault.

chris v · Jul 1, 2005, 06:55 PM

Originally Posted by mAxximo

Cultman is a silly brainwashed fanboi and all of his posts should be ignored. Whatever happens it will always be your fault.

Unlike you, some of us here try to help other members trouble-shoot their problems, which includes asking for more information sometimes. Randman was trying to gather info/offer help. You, as usual, are merely complaining. I'm utterly fed up with your posting style. Utterly. I will ask you one time to take a look at the way you behave on this forum, and if you can't attempt to be polite or helpful in any way, I encourage you to stop posting here.

mAxximo · Jul 1, 2005, 07:09 PM

I'm afraid your opinion is “utterly” irrelevant. Skip my posts if you don't like my style. I don't like yours but thank goodness I have a life so whatever you say it doesn't affect me in the least.

chris v · Jul 1, 2005, 10:53 PM

Originally Posted by mAxximo

I'm afraid your opinion is “utterly” irrelevant. Skip my posts if you don't like my style. I don't like yours but thank goodness I have a life so whatever you say it doesn't affect me in the least.

Can you point me to one post you've made where you've cheerfully helped someone with a hardware or software problem? I'll lay off if indeed I'm overlooking the good side of MaXximo, the nice guy.

As a long-standing forum member though, I would like to add that it would improve the general tenor here if at least you could refrain from insulting the good people here who are actually trying to help folks with problems, since you are by general consensus, the most argumentative and negative person who posts regularly in the Mac OS section, but do as you please-- free will and all.

mAxximo · Jul 1, 2005, 11:00 PM

Originally Posted by chris v

As a long-standing forum member though, I would like to add that it would improve the general tenor here if at least you could refrain from insulting the good people here who are actually trying to help folks with problems

As concerned as you seem about the general tenor, I couldn't find the post where you were asking those same “good people” to stop insulting me in the first place. Strange...

eddiecatflap · Jul 2, 2005, 01:56 AM

back on topic , spotlight def. needs some tweaking

and the finder find is hopeless on a slow mac with lots of files

Randman · Jul 2, 2005, 02:34 AM

Narrowing the search parameters does help. Choosing what to search rather than general search for everything speeds things up. And yes, Apple should have included the same tutorial on it as is available for .Mac users.

eddiecatflap · Jul 2, 2005, 03:36 AM

well , it just crashed my mac

tiger is a total piece of crap imo

how do i go back to panther ?

Millennium · 06:03 AM

Originally Posted by mAxximo

I'm afraid your opinion is “utterly” irrelevant. Skip my posts if you don't like my style. I don't like yours but thank goodness I have a life so whatever you say it doesn't affect me in the least.

Were you trying to offer helpful advice that would be one thing, but this time you just dropped an ad hominem out of the sky.

Actually, I take that partly back; on further examination it appears that the ad hominem was, in fact, provoked. That doesn't make it right -you still failed to offer anything remotely helpful- but I'll grant that this ad-hominem didn't come from nowhere.

That said, I can't say that Randman was entirely out of line. It's rare that you ask any support questions, and rarer still that you answer any questions with helpful advice. Most of what you do here is complain, and you do so without offering any justification other than appeal to authority (either your own or Tog's) and without offering any solution other than AHIG-fundamentalism. By many definitions, you do qualify as a troll, and many of your posts don't offer much in the way of help, so they can be ignored without detracting much from the thread.

chris v · Jul 2, 2005, 06:35 AM

Originally Posted by eddiecatflap

how do i go back to panther ?

If you have a retail OS CD, archive and install. If you've only got the software restore disk that came with your computer, it'll have onscreen instructions as to how to restore the computer to its original state.

Hi I'm Ben · Jul 2, 2005, 10:10 AM

Originally Posted by mAxximo

I'm afraid your opinion is “utterly” irrelevant. Skip my posts if you don't like my style. I don't like yours but thank goodness I have a life so whatever you say it doesn't affect me in the least.

Sometimes I wish you were banned from here. Ultimately I decided though that YOU WANT to be banned. Then you could tout your geeky ways to all your geeky friends how you were banned from the Mac message board because they were all "sleeping with Steve Jobs." Sadly I also believe if banned you'd try your hardest to make a new account and act even more childish on there. You believing you have a "life" (Which I doubt is exciting in the least) is no excuse to come on here and s*** in everyone's cereal every day. Anyway your "style" has gotten old I'm gonna look for that ignore user button I've heard so much about.

Have a good one!

Kevin · Jul 2, 2005, 01:27 PM

Sometimes I think Steve puts a stupid detector in OS X, and blocks certain people from using it properly so they will switch to Windows.

Very sneaky.

jszrules · Jul 2, 2005, 02:08 PM

If I complained about the fact that Spotlight is programmed to NOT look in certain folders (/System, /Library/Printers, ~/Library/Printers, who knows what else), should I also be "ignored" like mAxximo? Personally, I think this is a valid complaint...it doesn't make sense that not all files can be found even though Apple claims, "Find Anything. Anywhere." I am hoping this will be fixed in 10.4.2, just like mAxximo does.

To alex627, who started this thread, perhaps the files you cannot find are inside a folder that is designated to not be found by Spotlight. Assuming this is the cause of the problem, a temporary solution would be to download Highlight from macupdate.com.

chris v · Jul 2, 2005, 02:46 PM

Originally Posted by jszrules

If I complained about the fact that Spotlight is programmed to NOT look in certain folders (/System, /Library/Printers, ~/Library/Printers, who knows what else), should I also be "ignored" like mAxximo? Personally, I think this is a valid complaint...it doesn't make sense that not all files can be found even though Apple claims, "Find Anything. Anywhere." I am hoping this will be fixed in 10.4.2, just like mAxximo does.

No, because you have a valid complaint, about a specific problem. If they're making a list of folders to not be searched by default, then they should allow users to access/modify that list. There are plenty of good reasons why you'd want to use Spotlight or the Finder to locate items in those folders. You're certainly not the first person here to bring it up, and I do hope it gets changed. Perhaps another tab added to the Spotlight pref pane? Apple does read feedback, though we can't control whether they act upon it or disregard it for reasons unknown.

Another thing I've noticed is that my machines now spend 10-20 minutes indexing after every re-start. I haven't been able to figure out why, but it's pretty annoying to restart because something has gone south, then not being able to get back to work in earnest until Spotlight gets done indexing. Indexing should be a task saved for times when the machine is idle, (say for more than 5 minutes) then it should halt when the system is being used, at least the heavy-duty scouring the drive, using 60% CPU and 93% of I/O resources. (Logic it completely useless when my G5 in indexing)

There, I complained.

mAxximo · Jul 2, 2005, 03:04 PM

Originally Posted by Millennium

Were you trying to offer helpful advice that would be one thing, but this time you just dropped an ad hominem out of the sky.

Actually, I take that partly back; on further examination it appears that the ad hominem was, in fact, provoked. That doesn't make it right -you still failed to offer anything remotely helpful

The OP asked “Am I the only one seeing this??” and I aswered by saying “Don't worry, you're not the only one.” That's being helpful in my book. And truthful.

Of course you would have liked a lot more the usual “you must be doing something wrong” kind of answer but that's not what I do, sorry.

As for the rest of the BS you wrote about me, you're way off. Again.

Kevin · Jul 2, 2005, 03:12 PM

mAxx he seems to have hit it pretty close to the mark from where I am sitting.

mhuie · Jul 2, 2005, 03:16 PM

Originally Posted by alex627

Congratulations to all those who have found Spotlight so revolutionary. I am sorry that I can not join you in your fun.

Spotlight seems to have found a small fraction of my files and folders since I installed it a couple of weeks ago. Figures. The one new truly useful new feature of this OS update and it doesn't work for me.

Am I the only one that can't find files with Spotlight that I can find myself by opening folders?!

LAME.

If you would actually state your issue, you're post wouldn't look like you were whining. It looks like you were already expecting it not to work.