No, I'm quite familiar with command-F. I thought Spotlight was supposed to be an improvement.
As jmb just pointed out,
everything (in terms of Apple-built-in searching) **
is**
Spotlight.
So then, are you really quite familiar with command-F ?
How about
conditional searches (e.g. *not* a pdf)?
Here is Rob Griffith's excellent article: "
Add conditions to Finder searches"
I.e., the secret is to '
option' click on
(+). Â [why does Apple hide this stuff?]
EDIT: Wow... looks like Macworld lost the link to Rob's movie file. That's a most crucial part of that article. Too bad.
I really don't use either one very often. I happen to have things very well organized, and I remember where I put them most of the time. When I don't recall, I can usually find whatever I need in a minute or two.
How many things?
I have...
over 900 pdfs
over 1,900 rich text files
over 10,000 plain text files
over 10,000 html text files
Should i remember the exact location of all those?
Contents?!? I probably haven't fully read even half.
And as time goes on, the situation only gets worse.
[i.e., docs increase while memory decreases.
]
