Thanks Joe, good info

1- I've been using always the command spacebar way. It brings up a thin long rectangle on the finder desktop. Command F brings a a normal old fashioned style finder window. The results can be more accurate with command F? or just more choices.

2- When I do the privacy add subtract, thing, I assume the Mac is being pinged or rebooted to get new results now... Or are you saying doing that destroys all the old and it starts over from scratch? That would be insane, but I have to ask.

3- Many people swear by Easy Find, I too have seen it find things that Spotlight did not. But not lately at all. Have you experienced this? Maybe it went downhill?

4- What are smart folders and why are they better? Does that help with normal hardrive searches for text files?