<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Folks sometimes confuse Spotlight with the Finder File>Find menu item. <div><br></div><div>You invoke File>Find by pressing CMD+F in the Finder, and you invoke Spotlight by pressing the key combination that is specified in the Spotlight item in System Preferences (if enabled; the default is CMD+Spacebar).</div><div><br></div><div>Spotlight doesn't allow deleting a file; File>Find does:</div><div><br></div><div>+ Invoke Spotlight in the Finder, highlight a file in the list and press CMD+Backspace; the System emits the alert sound specified in the Sound item in System Preferences and does nothing to the highlighted file.</div><div><br></div><div>+ Press CMD+F in Finder, highlight a file in the list and press CMD+ Backspace; the file moves to the Trash as indicated by the file path at the bottom of the window (some have described this as Spotlight behavior; it is not).<br><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Ralph Jones</div></span></span></span></div></div></body></html>