[X4U] Thoughts on Spotlight?

[John Baltutis]

On 05/01/05, Robert Ameeti <Robert at Ameeti.net> wrote:
>
>>On 05/01/05, Eddie Hargreaves <meged at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>  On 5/1/05 9:56 AM, Robert Ameeti <Robert at Ameeti.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Tiger's Find is not indexed to search in places that most people
>>>>  wouldn't be looking such as the System folder.
>>
>>Let me know how to add the /System folder to the search criteria.
>>AFAIK, you can't.
>
> Have you tried:
> sudo mdimport -f /System/Library/
> Seems to work for me. What can't it find after indexing that directory?

I'll try that trick after getting and installing the GM; hopefully,
tomorrow. However, that option should be available in Spotlight and users
shouldn't be forced into using the CLI. That's the same nonsensical
"engineering" decision that removed the "disable journaling" tool from Disk
Utility and forces people to use the CLI diskutil tool. For Apple to offer
a UI application, which uses the CLI tools, and then cripple it is IMHO
unconscionable behavior on their part.