On 3 Mar 2007, at 12:14, Lee Licata wrote: > ... John, thank you, but, this changes where Finder searches, but > does not seem to affect anything when I bring up spotlight using > the "option-apple-spacebar" (default) keystroke. No, indeed. The "option-apple-spacebar" searches everything in Spotlight's index (not the entire computer - directories such as /etc are notably absent). In order for the O- Spotlight search to behave as you wish you would need to tell Spotlight to index nothing but your home directory; I am not sure this is possible. Stroller.