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There is tons if options to find files on macOS: the find command, spotlight, search in the finder, hierarchical view in the finder. Which popular OS has a bett
by tasogare 5y ago
There is tons if options to find files on macOS: the find command, spotlight, search in the finder, hierarchical view in the finder. Which popular OS has a better system than that?
- whimsicalism 5y agoThe search on MacOS is unusable for me. It always surfaces wrong/irrelevant things and defaults to searching in the oddest places.
- sobjornstad 5y agoThis exactly. Yesterday I needed to change my Touch ID settings and typed "Touch ID" into Spotlight search. First result: the dictionary definition of "Touch ID". Nowhere in the list: The System Preferences applet called exactly "Touch ID". Seriously?
- tacker2000 5y agoI have to agree with this. The search in macos is really broken. There are so many problems with it. It could be so much better but they havent improved it in years. Even using Alfred i dont get what i want sometimes. Maybe its because alfred is using spotlight indexes? I’d have to look it up.
- alisonkisk 5y agobut it's the easiest way to find system header files. Who cares about Preference Panes?!
- topicseed 5y agoYep, Spotlight is my go-to to launch apps but for files, it's either extremely slow, or extremely inaccurate, or simply doesn't show anything but web results. Frustrating... Same for Finder's search, defaults to searching weird folders and bad at reducing the noise.