Re: spotlight - SUCKS

In article <O4edndPZCYH-hvveRVn-tQ@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Fetch, Rover, Fetch" <Fetch-Rover-Fetch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> it is a resource hog (while indexing)
> it indexes without permission (as recently mentioned)
> it indexes removable media without asking
>
> All that said -
> the actual use of spotlight's index - near zero.
>
> For those who have been using any Mac OS since 7(?).
> There has been a simple - fast, easy to use Find utility.

I've used every released version of Mac OS and a few that weren't. The
Find feature you're describing was fairly simple but it was not
particularly fast and not ask flexible as Spotlight

> For those **FEW** instances when it is useful be able to search the
> content of a file (which is why spotlight does its indexing) ...

I think this is the problem. Spotlight indexing is not simply a
brute-force index of the content of the files. It can, with appropriate
plugins, allow searching on any identifiable information about the file.
Dimensions, resolution and color space of pictures. Authors of
documents. Usage histories. Number of items contained in folders. Mail
headers. ....

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