On Sep 13, 2010, at 3:24, "Rudolf O. Durrer" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Searching "This computer" does not give me ANY result, not even the file I 
> copied the name from...
> Restricting the search to "preference folder" (this is the open one) I get 
> the original file.
> How comes?

Spotlight searches from the GUI exclude system files. 

$ mdfind -name <filename>

Might give better results. Or enable System Files in the Spotlight GUI. 

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