Feb 13th, 2012
this command is useful if your spotlight index isnt returning results for things you know should be in it. open applications > terminal: sudo mdutil -E / you can do a refresh on specific folders if you need sudo ...
this command is useful if your spotlight index isnt returning results for things you know should be in it. open applications > terminal: sudo mdutil -E / you can do a refresh on specific folders if you need sudo ...
you can use spotlight to find documents or emails that were sent by, or made by a specific person. to do this you use the keyword 'author' eg author:bob final report will bring up all the documents by bob ...
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you can search using spotlight to find items matching a specific filetype. eg. if you want to search within all pdf documents for a specific keyword you could search for the following kind:pdf report this would find all ...
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this will show you how to use spotlight to search google and display the results in chrome, firefox or any other browser 1) open safari 2) go to preferences > general 3) make sure 'google' is your preferred ...
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this will show you how to preview files in spotlight on osx. if you perform a search using spotlight you can preview all the files shown, simply hover the mouse over the file and a 'quicklook' ...
this little keyboard shortcut will let you activate spotlight without having to click on the magnifying glass in the menubar in osx 1) press cmd + spacebar when you press cmd + spacebar at the same time ...
this will show you how to enable spotlight to index a network drive. make sure your network drive is connected open terminal type mdutil /Volumes/name -i on to enable the indexing of a connected network drive. type mdutil /Volumes/name -i off to disable ...
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if you want to turn off spotlight completely then open terminal > type: sudo mdutil -i off / if you want to re-enable spotlight then you need to open terminal > type: sudo mdutil -i on / && sudo mdutil ...
