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Exactly. Ever since I got one of those lil' white Macbooks in 2006 I've been so happy to be able to simply search for files with Spotlight and find them instan
by stephenhuey 14y ago
Exactly. Ever since I got one of those lil' white Macbooks in 2006 I've been so happy to be able to simply search for files with Spotlight and find them instantly, something Windows had never given me the ability to do.
- kayoone 14y agowindows explorer has had that feature for years as well
- stephenhuey 14y agoYes, I believe I was performing searches from the Start menu in Windows back in the 90s, but it was always horribly slow and still missed results. Ever since I got a Macbook in 2006 I've enjoyed instant results from Spotlight--I mean within 1 or sometimes 2 seconds, not 5 minutes!
- meaty 14y agoStart, type, search results. Its had that since vista!
- seanmcdirmid 14y agoIt never worked well for me, but I kill my search indexer process a lot because it turns my fan on.
- meaty 14y agoNever had that problem!
- revscat 14y agoIt's not nearly as fast, by at least an order of magnitude. Also, because there is no centralized location for apps to be stored (e.g. /Applications) it has a harder time succeeding as an app launcher.
- meaty 14y agoI can't tell the difference in speed between a 2007 Lenovo T61 and a 2010 MBP. Works fine for apps. Windows 8 actually makes distinction between documents, apps and settings.
- vsync 14y agoAnd yet "locate" is banned by default.
- rsynnott 14y agoBecause it's redundant. man mdfind If you want, of course, you can turn on locate, but it seems strange to have two local indexing things.
- Evbn 14y ago10 yeas on, I have never finished waiting for Spotlight to index my drive and serve a query.