Stephen,
spotlight is a very powefull feature. The lag you see is that it
appears that spotlight needs to load its database on first
interaction, so your first search after boot is always granted with a
little beach ball, the next ones will be quicker, I promisse (the
thing should load its database on boot and not on first use I
think...). If you don't care do use some of MacOS X Unix powers, then
read on for a little recipe!!!!
-- function that searches spotlight based on filename.
function mdFindFilesbyName pFilename
put format("mdfind %s | grep -i %s", pFilename, pFilename) into
tShellCMD
get shell(tShellCMD)
return it
end mdFindFilesbyName
This little function will search spotlight for the pattern you said
was the filename and grep will filter the lines for the filename.
With mdfind you can do boolean searches like search for something and
somethingelse and not someotherthing... you can do many cool things
with mdfind and if you use pipes for grep, tr, awk... you have a
killer toolkit!!!!
Always Remember, MacOS X is a Unix and Pipes are your Friend! :-D
the mdfind command line tool might be what you're looking for. You
can build a nice GUI for it in Rev if you want.
a Good resource on mdfind is http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/
2006/01/04/mdfind.html
Cheers
andre
PS: I love spotlight, but I'd rather have full blown BFS like queries.
On Mar 15, 2006, at 5:07 PM, Stephen Barncard wrote:
Does anyone here know about a way to turn off all Spotlight
activity and replace it with the the Panther style search?
I really, really HATE Spotlight. I just want to search filenames,
not the content. In spotlight I get way more hits than I need. I
design all my filenames to tell me all I need to know.
I also hate the way it anticipates my typing, as it blocks any
other activity, and if you make a mistake, one is faced with the
dreaded spinning beachball until it is ready. Finally there are
hardly any adjustments in its panel to turn any of this behavior
off. This thing blows so many HUI guidlines it's not funny.
Is anyone else annoyed with this horrible 'feature' of an otherwise
great OS?
sqb
--
stephen barncard
s a n f r a n c i s c o
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