At 3:58 PM -0700 9/2/06, John Baltutis wrote: >On 09/02/06, Robert Ameeti <robert at ameeti.net> wrote: >> At 5:42 PM -0700, 9/1/06, Daly Jessup wrote: >> >>>Also, I have a confusion here, because I thought a big problem with >>>Spotlight was that it deliberately omits quite a few folders from >>>its searches, so it would not search the entire hard drive. Has that >>>changed? >> >> I don't think so. I do believe that Apple is still omitting the >> System directory from its searches until the user alters the defaults >> through a hack. > >No hack needed. Users are able to modify plist files. Just modify the >/.Spotlight-V100/_rules.plist file which controls what's excluded and included >in Spotlight searches. This ain't rocket science. This is what mine >looks like: John, where and how do you find that .plist file? Daly ----------------------