[X4U] Spotlight - Searching For An Exact String

[Kirk McElhearn]

On Jul 11, 2005, at 9:01 PM, keithw wrote:

>>> So - I am wondering if we can get either spot light or the apple  
>>> find
>>> command in Tiger to perform the same way with content searches.
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>> When you search for a string in quotes in Spotlight, it only looks  
>> in  file names...
>> Kirk
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> And, there's no option to search for a string in the text body, in  
> addition to the title of the document or folder?
> If not, that's a serious deficiency. And after they touted  
> Spotlight so heavily, it's a crippled search tool?

I think that the goal was to provide simple yet powerful  
functionality from the Spotlight menu. You can refine that from the  
Finder search field, by adding all sorts of criteria. But there is  
currently no way to search for a string in content only from the menu.


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