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[Stroller]

On Apr 28, 2005, at 9:01 pm, Robert Ameeti wrote:

>> On my laptop, the number of emails I keep hanging around gives 
>> Spotlight a bit of grief - for one thing, almost any search will 
>> throw up a HUGE number of email results, often with no particular 
>> sorting; if I search for "Dave" it will throw up hundreds of messages 
>> in my mailing lists folders, and so something like "Dave Smith 
>> weekend cottage" is required to make the results more manageable.
>
> It is sometimes a bit of the real world when we get just what we asked 
> for. How would any system know just which 'Dave' we meant when we told 
> it we wanted stuff about 'Dave'?

Oh, indeed.

That was kinda a poor example, but I don't have my lappie handy, so I 
can't document a more reasonable whinge - suffice to say that at the 
moment almost any Spotlight search initially reveals an unhelpfully 
high number of email results on my system, and needs trimming down.

Once a couple more search terms are applied, a fantastically concise 
and appropriate selection of messages are returned. I'll have to try 
typing "Yosemite" - that single word seems to cause Spotlight to return 
_exactly_ the right results every time!   ;P

That wasn't really intended as a complaint - if I'm looking for emails 
in earnest, it's also likely that for me sorting Spotlight results by 
date will find the one(s) I require, or that Smart Mailboxes will be 
the way to go (I haven't tried that, yet). It's much more aggravating 
that my message mountain causes all Spotlight results to slow to 5 
seconds or so, but I suspect that I'll experience this much less on my 
G5 (that is of far more importance to me) and that a good clearup of 
old mailing list messages will reduce the load some.

Stroller.