~flipper <lord.flipper at gmail.com> wrote >even the Spotlight can't 'find' your /usr/bin directory. You can easily tell Spotlight to include /usr/bin in searches if you prefer such a configuration. But more importantly, why would the average user (not a power user, but an average user) *want* the contents of /user/bin -- or any other folder containing Unix executables or OS files -- to be included in Spotlight searches? There are over 700 files in /usr/bin alone, few of which most Mac users will ever care about and most of which contain a good number of basic words that would likely get picked up by Spotlight searches. For example, if Spotlight were to include /usr/bin by default, a user who searches for "copyright" would end up with literally hundreds of unwanted matches, making the results list pretty unmanageable.