On May 24, 2011, at 10:14 AM, Jon Stovell wrote:
> Instead, you might try using the Spotlight plugin and set it up to do
> a search for "kind:app" in its search criteria. That'll find all of
> your applications (and do it without the problems of QS's built in
> Find All Applications option).
I use “kMDItemKind == Application” instead. Using “kind:app” includes over 200
items I don’t want (mostly Java jar files).
% mdfind kind:app | wc -l
843
% mdfind "kMDItemKind == Application" | wc -l
612
But there are problems with this approach as well.
1. It’s as bad or worse about noticing changes to the list of applications
2. If you happen to have applications on an external disk (such as a backup
drive) when the Spotlight search runs, it’ll pick up all those duplicate
applications and add them to your catalog.
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Rob McBroom
<http://www.skurfer.com/>
