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I have no problems with Spotlight search. I use Alfred for the plug-ins, it's extensibility, workflows, clipboard history, everything else it can do. Alfred se
by eszed 2y ago
I have no problems with Spotlight search. I use Alfred for the plug-ins, it's extensibility, workflows, clipboard history, everything else it can do.
Alfred search, in fact, really irritates me in that I've not found a good way to limit the search space. No, I really don't want files inside various node_modules folders filling up the search results. <Sigh> I'll try Spotlight, or go directory traversing, again. Anyone have a solution for that?
- quacker 2y agoI'm on Sonoma (14.5). In System Settings > Siri & Spotlight, 1. I can deselect some pre-defined categories that Spotlight searches 2. I can click the "Spotlight Privacy..." button (at the very bottom right). Then I can add folders for it to ignore. (My preference is for Spotlight to ignore almost everything, so that it isn't indexing stuff and eating CPU on this old Macbook Air. I only have it scan Applications, Calculator, and System Settings. I have it specifically ignore my entire home directory which is where all my git repos are.)
- eszed 2y agoAre you saying that if I limit the Spotlight search space then Alfred will follow? Makes sense, if it's relying on Spotlight's index. I'll give it a try.
- numpy-thagoras 2y agoSpotlight search seems to have gotten better, while Alfred search has had me rebuild my index more than just a few times and it doesn't cope well with nested directories. Something happened in 15.1 onwards for me where Spotlight has become way faster and way better. But yes, Alfred used to dominate in search and speed as well.
- latexr 2y agohttps://www.alfredapp.com/help/kb/node-modules/ https://www.alfredapp.com/help/kb/node-modules/