I have never found the Spotlight search to be complete. When I absolutely have to find a file, I use a third-party search tool because Spotlight is so unreliable.
-- Regards, Howard Bornstein ----------------------- www.designeq.com On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Pete <p...@mollysrevenge.com> wrote: > Thanks Mark. IS that the Privacy tab of the Spotlight Preferences? If so, > I don ;t see anything there that would exclude that folder, unless there's > some global option somewhere that excludes all system files? > Pete > Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> > > On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Mark Schonewille < > m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > > > Hi Pete, > > > > One reason could be that system files have been excluded from indexing in > > the Spotlight preferences. > > > > -- > > Best regards, > > > > Mark Schonewille > > > > Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering > > Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer > > KvK: 50277553 > > > > See what you get with only a small contribution. All our LiveCode > downloads > > are listed at http://qery.us/zr > > > > On 26 sep 2011, at 00:39, Pete wrote: > > > > > I'm using the search bar at the top of a Finder window to find all > files > > > with a given name. The search is on "This Mac" and I just search file > > > names, not contents. There's at least one file that deosn't show up in > > the > > > results for some reason. It is located in folder ~/Library/Application > > > Support/Test. Files with the same name in other folders are found OK. > > > > > > Any ideas why this should be? > > > > > > Pete > > > Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
