[X4U] Thoughts on Spotlight?

[Vince Lewis]

On Apr 30, 2005, at 4:37 PM, Eddie Hargreaves wrote:

> On 4/30/05 2:31 PM, Neil Cadsawan <rainer3 at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> What Tiger doesn't do well is let you select a group of items and let 
>>  you
>> edit this information directly from this selection. ...  If you "get 
>> info" on
>> all these items as  they're selected, you get a bunch of Info windows 
>> popping
>> up and  would have to enter in information one by one.  Not good.
>
> Instead of selecting Get Info using Command-I, select Show Inspector 
> using
> Command-Option-I.
>
> Finally! We can now choose between having a Multiple Item Info window 
> or
> multiple Get Info windows (like in pre-OS X). The latter is very 
> helpful for
> showing a side-by-side comparison of two folders/items while the 
> former is
> very helpful for adding up the size of folders/items and applying the 
> same
> file permissions to multiple items.

This has been available since at least Jaguar. And I don't think it was 
ever available in <OS X--been a couple of years since I last looked at 
the Classic OS.
ciao,
Vince
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