Re: Spotlight query

J. J. Lodder <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

J. J. Lodder <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

J. J. Lodder <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]

And as said already, Tiger indexes much faster than Leo,
(the index is also a lot smaller)

Hmm. Righto.

Still, I'd like a straightforward find file by name routine, and it
turns out (now I've played around a bit), I'm still better off using
EasyFind than I am using Spotlight, even with Houdaspot as a front end.

In the olden days there was something called Filelist+.
It got renamed to FileRoudup.
It builds its own database.
I never got along with the Roundup version,
but you might like it.
(if it still exists)

I'm not a fan of the idea of indexed searching. I've met it being wrong
too often.

It's not an index, it's a catalog.
(or a database, if you want to call it that)

Please! Be it an index or a catalogue, it's also a database.

Come on Jan, you're slacking!

The conventional term for such data structures is, as far as I'm aware,
`index', for all that other English words might be a more accurate
description from the point of view of some. Other dialects will take a
different viewpoint.

Hmm. Time to consult the dictionary (the paper one I have here, not the
junk electronic version supplied with OS X).

An index may be fully comprehensive; a catalogue does not necessarily
have data on where to find an item but an index does. I think `index'
is best.

Me? I'll go with what I think is the conventional term - index, and
never mind the above reasoning.

[snip]

Spotlight's rubbish as far as I'm concerned.

Especially the Boolean search in Leo is sometimes quite useful,
also in filenames,

Just being able to do an old-fashioned MacOS Find File (by name) would
do me.

That's what Leo's spotlight does for you,

Oh no it doesn't - not from what I've seen of it.

with the added bonus that you can tell it where to look.

It's a shame that you can't learn to write in a non-confusing way. You
mean MacOS X 10.5 when you mistakenly write `Leo'.

I've got EasyFind. It does what I need every time I need it to find
things. Why mess about with 10.5?

Rowland.

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