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10.5.6 Update-DOES NOT SEARCH ANYMORE

It was bad enough that the new OS 10.5 doesn't search it's own server very well anymore, but now with this update the finder doesn't search it AT ALL! I can't search the millions of files we have on our OSX server anymore. I can't search for ANYTHING anymore.....how the heck am I suppose to get any work done having to manually look for the files I need to update.

We are back to the manual paperwork search we once did 10 years again. Apple is really disappointing me in this area. I want to go back to 10.4, that search worked PERFECTLY!

Help me Apple...or someone else!
Mike

MacPro Quad-Core Intel Xeon, Mac OS X (10.5.3)

Posted on Dec 16, 2008 7:40 AM

31 replies

Dec 19, 2008 9:31 AM in response to EBHEMike

The same. Spotlight doesn't find files inside \Library folder and some other. Looks strange.
Another annoying thing is that there's no results grouping any more. All we get is the list of files. I can sort them, yes, but not group. Old 10.4 way was much more convenient.
My second machine runs 10.4.11 and it looks much more friendly.

baltwo

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Dec 19, 2008 11:41 AM in response to digitalax

Spotlight's changed in Leopard. Much different than what it was in Tiger. Start with http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/Leopard/leospot.html and my mod to Finder's Find at http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6725932 for what you can change so you can find stuff.

mtb63

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Dec 19, 2008 11:47 AM in response to scotts1

We've been mounting using SMB since OS X was introduced. AFP was just too slow. There are drawbacks to using SMB but none of them are as bad compared to how slow AFP used to run. Since we work directly off servers it was a no brainer. Our other office had Apple Servers and they too realized SMB was the better/faster option.

Dec 19, 2008 2:23 PM in response to baltwo

baltwo, that was cool, thank you!

baltwo

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Dec 19, 2008 2:45 PM in response to digitalax

Glad to help.

Jan 8, 2009 9:25 AM in response to EBHEMike

Ditto. I can't search either. This is ridiculous. This is a major problem and Apple needs to respond as quickly as possible. This creates a major problem in corporate environments.

baltwo

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Jan 8, 2009 12:48 PM in response to Steven Wexler

Then, send in bug reports. Moaning here won't resolve the problem, especially since these forums aren't designed to dialog with Apple's employees.

Jan 8, 2009 3:09 PM in response to EBHEMike

This might sounds dumb but is this problem fixed if the server is on 10.5? Or does server 10.5 have the problem like server 10.4?

Thanks
Mike

Jan 9, 2009 11:43 AM in response to EBHEMike

Same problem here, upgraded to 10.5.6 and cannot search our apple server running tiger. Windows shares on 2003 server works fine. Will an upgrade of our Apple server to Leopard solve this issue? Is there an easy way to "uninstall" 10.5.6 without reinstalling the computer?

Jan 9, 2009 3:10 PM in response to Difhockey_68

Hi there, I'm not sure if upgrading helps, I'm hoping to hear as well. However the only way to get a client back to 10.5.5 is to run the installation and then choose 'Archive and Install'. This does an install over the top and then you can update to the version you want to be on. From my testing 10.5.5 works.

Mike

baltwo

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Jan 9, 2009 3:28 PM in response to mike allen2

…the only way to get a client back to 10.5.5 is to run the installation and then choose 'Archive and Install'.

Not so. If you follow best practices and retain a bootable backup/clone of the client's current installation before updating, rolling back is a simple matter of restoring the backup/clone.

Jan 9, 2009 4:23 PM in response to baltwo

Thanks, I stand corrected... if you have a backup you can restore it.

Jan 31, 2009 3:31 AM in response to mike allen2

Did the "archive and install" back to 10.5.5
Now able to search our X-serve for files again...

Feb 20, 2009 10:20 AM in response to baltwo

baltwo wrote:
For everyone reporting on this problem, Apple doesn't read these forums, so...

I have had Apple contact me personally about posts I've made to the forums in the past, so they do read them at least sometimes, if not all the time. And, why wouldn't they? That would be like having a comment form in your business and never reading it.

Feb 25, 2009 5:10 PM in response to G J Piper

Same here, not sure if it's a case of 'any more' as this is a brand-new refurb MBP and went straight to 10.5.6. Working in a live music situation, using 1000's of files and need to find some on-the-fly now and again but instead I'm left standing there scratching my head. Very poor. Have to say that so far this refurb. MBP and Leopard have been very far from stellar and I'd go back to my previous machine and Tiger if I could.

10.5.6 Update-DOES NOT SEARCH ANYMORE