Hi, Are you using command-space to enter spotlight? I find this always works for me. Also, do you ever leave quick nav on or turn cursor tracking off? If you do, then these may be part of your problem.
Cheers Dave On 14 Jul 2014, at 02:33, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > I know we've done this before, but I just can't quite get the hang of > Spotlight. I can do searches, and I use it all the time to launch apps. the > problem is when there are multiple matches, and I need to find an item that > doesn't come up as the top hit. Whenever I have to investigate the list of > results, one of three things happens: > > 1. I arrow, and can navigate the list just fine, but enter opens the item > before or after the item VO spoke. If I arrow to item 5 and press enter, item > 4 might open instead of item 5. > 2. I hear the dreaded "system has new window" as I move through the list, and > then my arrows fail to do anything. The only way to get out of this is to > close Spotlight and start all over again. > 3. I get stuck in a list of three items: web search, Wikipedia search, or > Spotlight preferences. No matter how many matches my search returned, those > three items are the only ones I can arrow through; even the text field is > gone when this happens. As in #2, the only way to recover is to close > Spotlight. This one seems to happen most if I use vo-up/down instead of > unmodified up/down. > > Rarely if ever am I able to just arrow through the list of hits and open one. > What am I doing wrong? Why does Spotlight hate me so much? I've recently come > to embrace the awesome power that is the tag, and I'm loving it since I can > easily search for files. However, choosing a match is proving to be more > trouble than just manually sifting through Finder and ignoring Spotlight > altogether. Any help would be wonderful. Thanks! > -- > Have a great day, > Alex Hall > [email protected] > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
