Thanks for the follow up with my problems. I hope you had a great Thanksgiving.
I've tried Spotlight and usually it gives me too much! When I stop and think "Oh yeah, what I want is a document and focus on only that part of the list, then I usually can find what I'm looking for. Yesterday, I had just about given up on it, when it finally dawned on me that the document I wanted was on my laptop, not the iMac! My Mail Lapp still doesn't allow me to reply or write new messages or send, so I am now using Thunderbird. I'm not as happy with it, primarily because I am not that use to it yet. I do like Thunderbird's spell check better than Mail's. But I liked the fact that Mail numbered the messages, so I had some idea of how many had accumulated in my inbox. In fact it gives the total number and the number unread. I'm still hoping that I get Mail working again, but it will probably be in the installation of the next OS (10.5). Anne Jerry Freeman wrote: > > 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. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
