What Apple actually says is All Home folders (local and network-based, as well as FileVault and non-FileVault). This includes: The Documents, Movies, Music, and Pictures folders The Trash of all users and each mounted volume. ~/Library/Metadata/ ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/ ~/Library/Mail/ ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.AddressBook/Metadata/ ~/Library/PreferencePanes/
Seems a touch inconsistent to me, as "All Home folders" should mean the whole of the ~/Library. But part of the issue is that it can search the contents of files, as well as file names, and one probably would not want it to look at the contents of log files or preferences. The document goes on to say Spotlight also searches these non-Home folder locations by default: /Library/PreferencePanes/ /System/Library/PreferencePanes/ /Applications Can Spotlight search anywhere else? Of course! Any new folder you create in your Home automatically gets indexed so that it's searchable. If you connect an external storage device, such as a USB or FireWire hard drive, Spotlight will index the stuff on it, too. -- danco ------------------------------------------------------------------------ danco's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=210 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23020 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
