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

Ray Choiniere rfcee at earthlink.net
Mon Jan 7 12:22:52 PST 2008


On Jan 7, 2008, at 5:31 AM, Daly Jessup wrote:

> 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.

OK, just tried NotLight.
Dang, that thing is fast!

(Now I just need to learn to use its slightly arcane interface. Looks  
very good.)

Ray


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