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what on earth happened to spotlight and the find command in leopard ??
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in tiger when you clicked see all results in the spotlight menu , you helpfully had a hierarchal separated list of all items found , just like in the left hand devices etc menu
now it's a total mess and you're unable to sort it by any criteria
in tiger you could find items by criteria such as 100meg+ and you could then view the results by size
in leopard it's another massive conglomeration of stuff that's impossible to sort
what happened and am i missing a feature ??
basically you can search by size - but you can't sort the results by that criteria.. which seems a real step backwards to me
(Last edited by Richard Richard; Oct 30, 2007 at 03:53 AM.
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You have to click the little + on the right edge of the light blue header in the finder window search opens to narrow the results.. Or, switch the finder view to 'list' and sort by kind, date, size, etc..
It's not as useful as it used to be.
There are some more powerful options, check out the help for spotlight:
Here are ways to specify search criteria:
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Phrase
Use quotation marks around text to search for exact phrases — the same way you do with most Internet searches. For example, enter “trip to France” in the search field to find items on your computer that contain that exact phrase. If you didn't use quotes, the search results would include items that contain any of those words.
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Attribute
Most items contain metadata that describes the item contents, how it was created, and other attributes. For example, when you take a digital photo, information such as the camera model, the aperture, and the focal length are among the many attributes automatically stored in the file as metadata. Here are examples of what you might type in the search field when you search using metadata attributes:
trip kind:document searches for the word “trip” in documents only
author:tom searches for all items written by Tom
meeting date:tomorrow searches for meetings you have planned for tomorrow
kind:images created:5/16/07 searches for images created on a specific date
kind:music by:”glenn miller” searches for music by Glenn Miller
modified:<=6/29/07 searches for items modified on or before a specific date
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Boolean query
A Boolean query is a search that uses AND, OR, and NOT (known as Boolean operators) to narrow results. You can also use a dash (-), meaning AND NOT, to exclude items when you search. Here are examples of what you might type in the search field when you search using Boolean operators:
author:tom AND author:thom searches for items authored by Tom and Thom, in case you don’t know the exact spelling of his name
trip -france searches for items that contain the word “trip” but not “france,” so results might include photos from a trip to Spain but not to France
kind:messages date:6/29/07-7/25/07 NOT date:7/14/07 searches for email messages dated from 6/29/07 through 7/25/07, but excludes those dated 7/14/07
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thanks for all the tips
unfortunately you still can't sort the results by size , only name , kind and last opened , the view option box shows no options available , although when you select a file from the list and go to that folder , the list shows the size - odd !!!
the advanced search IS impressive ( once you really delve into the inner workings of your hard drive ! ) , just for the average layman like myself it seems overkill
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