03-25-2006, 12:36 AM
Grumpyguy Wrote:
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> spotlight seems to find a lot of clutter, rather
> than the file I want.
>
> It seems overly complex without any great value to
> the user. That's just my 2¢ and it it works for
> other people, then more power to them : )
Apple posted a Tip Of The Week from Scott Kelby (Killer Tips Book guy) that may help you out on those searches:
If you want to narrow your search right off the bat, you can add a category when you type the term in the Search field. For example, if you’re looking for a song named “Vertigo” (by the band U2), there’s no sense in having Spotlight bring you a list of email messages from your ear doctor, right? So if you give Spotlight a hint as to what you’re looking for, you can get just songs as your Spotlight search results.
Here’s how: Type “kind:music” (with no space in between or quotations), then add one space and type “Vertigo” (again, you don’t need the quotes). So your search will look like this: kind:music Vertigo.
Now it will only search songs, and you’ll only get song results. Schweet!
http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/spotlighthint.html
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> spotlight seems to find a lot of clutter, rather
> than the file I want.
>
> It seems overly complex without any great value to
> the user. That's just my 2¢ and it it works for
> other people, then more power to them : )
Apple posted a Tip Of The Week from Scott Kelby (Killer Tips Book guy) that may help you out on those searches:
If you want to narrow your search right off the bat, you can add a category when you type the term in the Search field. For example, if you’re looking for a song named “Vertigo” (by the band U2), there’s no sense in having Spotlight bring you a list of email messages from your ear doctor, right? So if you give Spotlight a hint as to what you’re looking for, you can get just songs as your Spotlight search results.
Here’s how: Type “kind:music” (with no space in between or quotations), then add one space and type “Vertigo” (again, you don’t need the quotes). So your search will look like this: kind:music Vertigo.
Now it will only search songs, and you’ll only get song results. Schweet!
http://www.apple.com/pro/tips/spotlighthint.html