[X4U] Spotlight and Google Desktop are both utterly useless...

[Earle Jones]

On Nov 28, 2007, at 1:07 AM, Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:

> ...if they're not searching my home library (under Leopard) :-( e.g. a
> search for 'com.apple.ActivityMonitor.plist' turns up NOTHING :-(
>
> Is there any DECENT search tool that will do this VERY basic thing???
> *highly frustrated look*
>
> Regards,
>  Jamie Kahn Genet

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Jamie:  Greetings!  To me 'SpotLIght' is one of the most frustrating =20
programs ever devised by Apple.  It is a remarkably good search tool =20
with an impossible graphic interface -- completely nonintuitive and =20
non-Apple.

Solution:  Go to 'Version Tracker' and look for 'NotLight' -- a very =20
nice front-end for Spotlight.  It takes advantage of Spotlight's =20
search kernel and provides a very intuitive GUI.

I haven't used it with Leopard -- it runs fine under Tiger.

It's a free download here:  http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/=20
moreinfo/macosx/29015

earle
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PS:  I just tried it out on 'com.apple.ActivityMonitor.plist' and it =20
found it in about a half second.

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