OK thanks very much Tim. I'm slowly working through a list of Spotlight replacements and so far none is working. I'll try a few more. In the end if nothing works I'll just upload all the files to Google Drive and let Google do what it does best.
Thanks again. Edward. On Thursday, January 2, 2014 9:19:14 AM UTC-5, Edward Cook 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. > -- 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.
