[X4U] Thoughts on Spotlight?

[John Baltutis]

On 04/30/05, Steve Talkowski <stevetalkowski at mac.com> wrote:
>
> I installed Tiger last night on my G4 1.5GHz Powerbook  (Archive and
> Install) and have been migrating over a few items from my Previous
> System Folder this afternoon.
>
> As a test, I used spotlight to locate some of those original files
> and get this - they don't show up in the search results?!   Is the
> Previous System folder (and it's sub directories) not being indexed
> by Spotlight?

AFAIK, Spotlight only indexes the items shown in the Privacy tab. You can
deselect some, but can't add anything. IMHO, that's its main shortcoming.

>
> Personally, when using the Spotlight window (Option+Command+Space
> bar) I would like to see a direct path when clicking on a file
> instead of having to click the "i" button.  Similar to what you get
> when you run a spotlight search in a Finder window.

IIRC, that's not available. I'm still running Panther and awaiting receipt
of Tiger's GM version.