Using Tiger 10.3.9... When I go to the desktop and click command - F and the find command opens - a click on the "others" tab and choose the hard drive I want to search in - and to get rid of all the other criteria and choose: name - contains & the keyword I am looking for... Then I hit return ... Very often it will not find something that I know is there... Just to prove this I will load the great program "easyfind 3.9" ... And it finds what Apple could not find it in just a few seconds... Q: Why is this happening... How can I fix this? Is it an Apple bug? BTW: spotlight does not have anything in the privacy area to block this... -- Thanks - RevDave CoolCat at hosting4days.com [db-lists]