Q: search results shows only partial and cannot disable preview?
Hello,
So, here is the thing. Engineers that are trying to make Spotlight rad and commercial had focused on the wrong usable features.
Let me tell you what problems i've encountered with it so far.
Coming from the music industry, where Macs are used as a standard, and music search functionality is a must, I really need this sorted somehow:
Search results are not so on the spot: searching for a song that has a number as the name of the song, spotlight returns no result for that song.
Spotlight decides that I only need a fraction of the search result name, not the entire filename that needs to show up in preview/results and that is a problem because I have multiple music files that have the same name as song but different artists and so, different songs. I only get the name of the song but not the artists because spotlight decides that I don't need to see the entire name of the file?
Also, why isn't there an ability to turn off the preview of files? I only need to see the entire filename to be sure that is the correct one, in the right location.
Please focus on the best functionality of the search app, not features that might never be used, like huge preview window and functions that might interfere with the original search (searching for a song named 212 and it shows calculations of 212 or anything other than the actual song which, of course, it is indexed properly).
Thank you.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4), null
Posted on Apr 30, 2016 8:17 AM
