I think one of the main advantages is supposed to be speed. Spotlight
keeps an index of all your documents so search results come up quickly.
The unix find command only searches file meta-data like its name,
modification date, size etc. Spotlight searches inside your files so if
you have a document which mentions pizza inside and is named "my
favorite foods" spotlight should bring it up while find will not.
CB
On 10/3/15 3:59 PM, Blee Blat wrote:
I'm with you. I don't understand why I would use Spotlight when I could easily
just use the UNIX find command from a terminal, or I know where my files. I've
turned off all the spotlight options and turned off dictation and Siri because
it gets things wrong pretty much all the time. I also turn off autocorrect and
predictive text because I can type fast enough and all the autocorrect does is
cause me to type the wrong word when I could've typed the right one without
that feature. Does anyone care to explain what are the use of all these new
features other than to making thinking superfluous? All this data monitoring
stuff just seems creepy. But maybe there is a use for it? Why would I want to
train the dictator and autocorrect if I can type it in just fine with a
reasonable keyboard?
None of this is meant as negativity I'm just wondering how to make use of
these fancy algorithms without the machine thinking for me and being creepy.
But it could be possibly just user error or user ignorance since I don't know
what the intent of these things is exactly?
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