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Subject: Re: macOS Big Sur's search doesn't find everything?
From: Lewis
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Date: Fri, 7 May 2021 18:31 UTC
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Subject: Re: macOS Big Sur's search doesn't find everything?
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In message <060520211806506328%nospam@nospam.invalid> nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article <s71o6c$4nv$3@dont-email.me>, Alan Baker
> <notonyourlife@no.no.no.no> wrote:

>> >> I was searching "culture" (without quotation marks) for Office 365
>> >> v16.48's Office filenames, but macOS Big Sur v11.3.1's Finder and
>> >> Spotlight doesn't find them in a 13" 2012 Intel MacBook Pro's SSD. It
>> >> doesn't show all of the files that I see when manually listing them in
>> >> Finder's Documents.
>> >
>> > totally normal. spotlight is not great at finding stuff.
>>
>> Actually, Spotlight is EXCELLENT at finding stuff.

> actually it's not.

Disagree. I use it every day.

> for example, it fails miserably with partial matches. it doesn't search
> everywhere. the index can silently corrupt.

It searches everywhere if you tell it to search everywhere. It does well
with partial matches, and I've never had the index corrupt,. or not for
many years.

I mostly use mdfind from the command line.

The biggest issue, but it has nothing to do with Spotlight per se is
finding things stored in iCloud.

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