At 12:02 PM -0700 5/10/06, John Baltutis wrote: > >The following is based on a hint by Tim Wilson-Brown. As always, use >it at your >own risk. > >To force Spotlight to search in excluded places, you need to modify the >_rules.plist file stored in the hidden .Spotlight-V100 directory. > >Do this while logged into an admin user account: <snip> >Restart and note that Spotlight will start reindexing. When it finishes, you >should be able to search for anything located in the now included directories. Wow, thank you, John, and also to Bjorn for the tip that "<array/> is an XML shortcut for an empty tag, i. e. for writing <array></array>." This worked wonderfully! Now I have one more question. I had a system crash a couple of months ago and lost a valued tip about how to make the Command-F find open at "Name contains..." automatically (instead of "Kind"). Does anyone still have that tip to share? I tried to Google it but failed to find it. Daly ---------------------- _________________________________________________________ Dual 2 GHz G5, 2.5 GB RAM, two 250-GB internal HDs; Epson FW scanner, HD enclosure, iSight; USB Dymo, Palm cradle, graphics tablet, mouse, card reader; Airport Extreme to cable modem, OS X 10.4.6, 23" cinema display.