On Nov 21, 2005, at 2:26 PM, Anne Cartwright wrote: > P. S. I figured out the reason Tiger seemed so slow probably was > related to it indexing my HD for Spotlight. However I do not find > Spotlight (I assume that's the new Command-F helpful.
Didn't read your post correctly. For tutorials on Spotlight try the links below. Find, CMD + F is still there in Tigre. The advantage of Find is that it shows the path "in icons" at the bottom of the search dialog box when an search item is selected, allowing direct double click access to the host folder?which is sometimes desirable. In Spotlight the path is described by clicking on the italic "i" in the opened search result dialog window, but you have to navigate in the Finder to access the host folder. > It doesn't know what I'm searching for. Neither do I. Obviously you had something in mind when you initiated as search :) Say, a .rtf document created in 2004, a letter to Tom. You can find it as simple as typing "rtf", then sort by people in the open Spotlight dialog window. I also use Spotlight as my default Application launcher. Seems to be a love/hate feature does our Spotlight...jf http://www.atomiclearning.com/osx_tiger_orientation http://developer.apple.com/macosx/spotlight.html ps Still pondering your mail.app problem. I suspect a corrupt preference file, and would systematically delete them all. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 2102 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20051130/c89ac83b/attachment.bin
