Originally Posted By: Gregg
Yes, I know about conditional searches. I'm saying that I enter a word that I know exists in a file name, but Spotlight does not find that file. So, I go find it myself, and, lo and behold, it's there.

There where? Was it in a Library folder? Is that why it didn't show up? Or was the file of some type which Spotlight is currently unable to delve into? Else the index probably needs rebuilding. [which not only makes Spotlight search better... it usually frees up a small amount of disk space.]