I think that spotlight does not search system folders, at least this is consistent with my experiences. I'm guessing apple did that on purpose to prevent accidental damage to ones system caused by the improper modification of system files. If they don't come up in searches then they won't be messed with.
On 4/28/10, Rudolf O. Durrer <[email protected]> wrote: > In Spotlights prefpane, all categories are "checked", and no volume is > excluded from spotlight. > > Example > In the Finders Search Window, I'm searching for: > Suffix equals "plist" > last mod date equals "today" > Visibility equals "visible or invisible" > > Result: none > > I'll do a search with Filebuddy Demo for all plists changed in the > last hour, it returns 44 items > > I reduce the search to: > last mod date equals "today" > > I get 4 folders and 1 Applescript > > I'll do a search with Filebuddy Demo for all items changed in the last > hour, it returns 301 items. > > How is that explainable, and how reliable is Spotlight? > Rudolf > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk > -- Best Regards, John Musbach _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
