[X4U] "Searching" question under 10.4

[John Baltutis]

On 05/12/06, Daly Jessup <jessup at san.rr.com> wrote:
> At 12:02 PM -0700 5/10/06, John Baltutis wrote:
>>
>>To force Spotlight to search in excluded places, you need to modify the
>>_rules.plist file stored in the hidden .Spotlight-V100 directory.
>>
>>Do this while logged into an admin user account:
> <snip>
>>Restart and note that Spotlight will start reindexing. When it finishes, you
>>should be able to search for anything located in the now included directories.
>
> Wow, thank you, John, and also to Bjorn for the tip that "<array/> is
> an XML shortcut for an empty tag, i. e. for writing <array></array>."
>
> This worked wonderfully!
>
> Now I have one more question. I had a system crash a couple of months
> ago and lost a valued tip about how to make the Command-F find open
> at "Name contains..." automatically (instead of "Kind"). Does anyone
> still have that tip to share? I tried to Google it but failed to find it.

To reset Finder's Find to search by name contains, rather than its current
defaults, see my post in the thread at
<http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050501162147222&query=spotlight>.