Hi Edward, On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Edward Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a lot of Word documents on my Mac and need to be able to search for > specific words or phrases. Spotlight used to work for this, but doesn't any > more, despite me telling it to re-index my drive and also replacing the > Microsoft Office mdimporter plugin in the Library folder. > > I downloaded Quicksilver because it came up in Google results as being a > replacement for Spotlight. But it doesn't seem to be indexing my Word > documents either. Is it supposed to? I'm beginning to think the only way to > make these searchable is to upload them all to Google Drive and use Google > search on them. > > Any help appreciated.
Quicksilver, for the most part, is not about indexing the contents of files, but the names of files and then allowing you to act on the file or logical entity (think contact card or itunes tracks). So Quicksilver will index the names of all your word files and let you search for them quickly (as quickly as Spotlight in most cases), but you need to drop back to Spotlight if you want to search the contents. So if Spotlight can no longer index Word files Quicksilver's not going to be much help, IIUC. Sorry! -- In Christ, Timmy V. http://blog.twonegatives.com/ http://five.sentenc.es/ -- Spend less time on mail -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Quicksilver" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/blacktree-quicksilver. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
