[X4U] Using Apple's Find (Command F)

Daly Jessup jessup at san.rr.com
Sat Sep 2 17:03:27 PDT 2006


At 3:58 PM -0700 9/2/06, John Baltutis wrote:
>On 09/02/06, Robert Ameeti <robert at ameeti.net> wrote:
>>  At 5:42 PM -0700, 9/1/06, Daly Jessup wrote:
>>
>>>Also, I have a confusion here, because I thought a big problem with
>>>Spotlight was that it deliberately omits quite a few folders from
>>>its searches, so it would not search the entire hard drive. Has that
>>>changed?
>>
>>  I don't think so. I do believe that Apple is still omitting the
>>  System directory from its searches until the user alters the defaults
>>  through a hack.
>
>No hack needed. Users are able to modify plist files. Just modify the
>/.Spotlight-V100/_rules.plist file which controls what's excluded and included
>in Spotlight searches. This ain't rocket science. This is what mine 
>looks like:

John, where and how do you find that .plist file?

Daly
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