[X4U] Spotlight search results are not sortable by usual Finder metadata

[Michael Elliott]

Yes, Notlight uses Spotlight's engine so its very fast. Just an ugly  
interface :-)  I got a message from Houdaspot's developer. He says  
he's adding the ability to search both name AND content with one  
search field. Of course, its not free though :-)

Michael

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On Jan 7, 2008, at 7:31 AM, Daly Jessup <jessup at san.rr.com> wrote:

> At 19 48  -0800 1/6/08, Ray Choiniere wrote:
>> On Jan 6, 2008, at 5:45 PM, Michael Elliott wrote:
>
>> I'm using EasyFind 4.0.1, which I believe is a relatively recent  
>> version, and it does in fact search for file contents, not just  
>> file name. And it offers choices for All Words, Any Word, Phrase,  
>> Wildcards, and Boolean for your search entry. Maybe it would be  
>> worth looking at again in its current incarnation?
>>
>>> Also, the speed of Easyfind is abysmal.  I started a search of my  
>>> drives for one word that I know to be rare on my drives,  
>>> "elephant".  I have answered a phone call, and literally walked  
>>> downstairs to get a cup of tea, and then write this letter, and  
>>> the search still isn't completed.
>>
>> I suppose you're right about that, but of course perception of  
>> speed depends on individual requirements and expectations. Probably  
>> my requirements and expectations are just not very high, so I was  
>> content -- not thrilled, I confess, but content -- with the search  
>> I just did. Just for the heck of it I searched in my entire Home  
>> folder for my last name as file contents. The folder is about 44 GB  
>> according to the Finder Info window and the search was completed in  
>> 65 seconds. (45 occurrences of my name, "Choiniere," by the way.  
>> Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside!)
>
> Okay, I don't want to beat a drum about this, but I just searched  
> the contents all documents on my hard drive for documents containing  
> my full name. I used NotLight. It took less than 1.5 seconds to find  
> 486 documents and list them with name, path, and date last modified.  
> If someone is using Tiger, I can highly recommend NotLight. It also  
> allows search by file name, and several other criteria, and wild  
> card searches, and secondary searching within a set of found  
> items.   AND it doesn't start searching until you have finished  
> typing your search criteria. And it's free. And it lets you save  
> searches.
> <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/29015>
>
> Daly
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