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Spotlight: the path is blocked from veiw
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Often when I get a result from Spotlight, I click command to see the path, and in the very small window that is spotlight, the path is truncated. I cannot see if it's coming from a backup drive or my main hardrive. Anyway to open that window at all? Thanks. I tried everything and that window does not seem to get bigger and there is not even a scoll to move the result to the left.
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Moderator  Join Date: Oct 2001
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Scroll to the bottom of the found items list and double-click the option to view the results in the Finder.
Steve
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Thanks,Steve, by the time I do the scroll to the bottom, then I double click that. Then I eyeball up and down the new the new finder window, I may not remember what file I was wanted to see in the first place, very laborious.
Is it odd that the path is blocked in spotlight? Am I the first to notice?
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Spotlight does block some paths. I suggest getting Easyfind, which can find anything on any drive. It can even find invisible files, or those inside app packages. Why Apple crippled Spotlight, I have no idea, but Easyfind is not crippled.
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Moderator Join Date: Apr 2000
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Spotlight hides invisible files, or files in invisible folders, by default - probably to avoid confusing people. That can be disabled, however, by going to the advanced search box (Command-F in Finder) and explicitly searching for invisible files.
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The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
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Thanks C, every time I post about Spotlight someone bring up Easyfind! I have and love Easyfind, but this question is on Spotlight.
P, I'm not sure you understand my question, it has nothing to do with invisible files.
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
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If any part of the path is invisible, the path won't be shown, including any folders in that path. So your files may be perfectly visible, but they may be a couple levels down from a system folder that's invisible by default. So change your Spotlight settings to show all files and see if your paths are displayed the way you want. Maybe that's not part of your issue, but it can't hurt to see.
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G, the path is visible, it's just gets cut off from view because the design of spotlight is so poor. It's just a thin rectangle, that CANNOT be stretched out for some reason..
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Administrator Join Date: Apr 2001
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Ah. I'd misunderstood. Is it a particularly long path, or is the box just too tiny? (I'm on my iPad right now, or I'd play with it myself.)
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Go on a 27 " desktop, laptop... the box if crazy, wont expand....normal paths, my stuff is often 4-5 folders in.
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