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Agreed with spotlight, and when searching in a folder in finder it just doesn't work - it's absolutely bizarre. Say i open a folder with 50 files and i want to
by kossTKR 3y ago
Agreed with spotlight, and when searching in a folder in finder it just doesn't work - it's absolutely bizarre.
Say i open a folder with 50 files and i want to filter them quickly, i go to the upper right corner of the window and click the little spotlight icon, then at first the OS default is to search your -entire- computer, a hilariously bad design choice, then when you change that and start typing for the hundredth time it takes minutes for anything to show up like spotlight has to index the folder again.
And sometimes nothing happens at all, and since apple doesn't show any feedback or what's going on you've got no idea if scrolling will be faster - so it's one of apples infamous "nothing is happening because we are doing magic" moment you meet daily.
What the hell is going on Apple?
- yankcrime 3y ago> Say i open a folder with 50 files and i want to filter them quickly, i go to the upper right corner of the window and click the little spotlight icon, then at first the OS default is to search your -entire- computer Go to Finder settings, click on advanced, and change the option 'When performing a search' to just current folder. I can't remember if that's the default or not, but it's easily fixed.
- kossTKR 3y agoAh, thank you! Still the search doesn't work though weirdly, but one step further i guess.
- davidivadavid 3y agoTook me years before I discovered you have to append "name:" at the start of your search for Spotlight to actually be useful when you know what you're looking for (i.e. the keyword should be in the filename). The default UX they went for is really puzzling.