How to force spotlight to reindex your drive
This command will force spotlight to reindex your drive. It is useful if your spotlight index isnt returning results you know it should. This post will help you force spotlight…
Use spotlight to find email or documents by a specific person or author
You can use spotlight to find email or documents by a specific person. To do this you use the keyword 'author' author:bob final report Will bring up all the documents…
Use spotlight to find specific filetypes
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…
Use spotlight to search google and display the results in google chrome
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 >…
Preview files in spotlight
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…
Spotlight activation keyboard shortcut
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…
How to enable spotlight indexing on a network drive
This short blog post will show you how to enable spotlight indexing on a network drive. I have also added the commands to disable spotlight indexing on network drive that's…
Disable spotlight search
Spotlight on osx is a fantastic feature which will give you suggestions by searching your mac for documents and apps. This post will show you how to turn off spotlight…