Re: Spotlight

In article <C5D2B87B.34704%nicknaym@[remove_this].gmail.com>,
Nick Naym <nicknaym@[remove_this].gmail.com> wrote:

In article uce-0C24C6.18493001032009@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Gregory
Weston at uce@xxxxxxxxxx wrote on 3/1/09 6:49 PM:

In article <2009030116460916807-jon75@mecom>, Jon75 <jon75@xxxxxx>
wrote:

Is it just me, or does Spotlight display search results from the folder
'Library' in my user account?

If not, is there any way to make it do that?

The menu bar interface to Spotlight's search facility only look in
places that Apple expected users were likely to actually want their
data, and generally users aren't storing their data in ~/Library.

If instead of Cmd-Space you use Cmd-F, there'll be a popup menu that
defaults to "Kind." Change that to "Other" and when the sheet drops down
you can tell it to add "System Files" to this menu. When you add the
system files criterion to a search you can tell it to either include or
exclude them, and including them will search in the Library folders and
other places it won't normally look.

Greg, are you sure Spotlight doesn't search the user's Library, _without_
first adding System to the search criteria? I always assumed that it did,
and that adding "System" simply enabled one to expand the search to include
the main System files.

(Hmmm...but that might only be permitted if the user were an Admin.)

Tested on my 10.5.6 system as I was composing the message. By default
"system" locations are not searched and any Library directory falls into
that category.

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