I would be really surprised if the differences in what people are finding in their spotlight searches is a function of the model of computer they have, though I suppose it's possible.
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(Lamentations 3:21-23 ESV) > On Oct 21, 2014, at 2:57 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > > On my mid 2012 Macbook Air, doing a Spotlight search for Starbucks tells me > about a local Starbucks, plus the web results and all the rest, for what > that's worth. >> On Oct 21, 2014, at 1:48 PM, 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> wrote: >> >> Another completely strange occurrence, I now just updated a 2014 Macbook Air >> to Yosemite, and spotlight searches for Starbucks turns up everything, Bing, >> Wikipedia, map results, everything you would expect. >> The computer on which there were no results whatsoever was a 2012 Mac Mini. >> Very interesting. >> >> >> From: Tim Kilburn <mailto:[email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 10:09 AM >> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Yosemite: Continuing Curiosities in Spotlight Search >> >> Hi, >> >> Hmmm. I did the same as you entering “Starbucks” into my Entry field. The >> first result was your message, then I could arrow down through various other >> references to Starbucks that it found. Interestingly enough, I had more >> than a dozen references to Starbucks in various eMails and no others on my >> computer. Another interesting thing is that it did not display any Internet >> or Wikipedia results, which is likely false as I would venture to say that >> Starbucks should show up quite a bit around the Net. Probably some setting >> I need to manipulate. >> >> Later… >> >> Tim Kilburn >> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >> >>> On Oct 21, 2014, at 7:51 AM, 'Jim Fettgather' via MacVisionaries >>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >>> wrote: >>> >>> According to documentation, performing a search term is Spotlight should >>> bring up Wikipedia entries, map data, possible dictionary definitions, and >>> a host of results. >>> >>> I was able to verify that typing in the term Starbucks into Spotlight >>> brought no results, and the message appeared visually on the screen as >>> well: No results. >>> >>> All checkboxes are checked in all 21 categories in Spotlight preferences, >>> disk permissions have been performed, and so on, >>> >>> so I’m really curious as to why some terms bring up absolutely no results. >>> This does not appear to be an accessibility issue, just some kind of >>> performance issue or quirk. >>> Thanks for any thoughts. >>> >>> -- >>> 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] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >>> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >>> <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] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <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] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries >> <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex Hall > [email protected] <mailto:[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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries > <http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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