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Using "cmd F" finds files that have absolutely nothing to do with the search term. What am I doing wrong? It can't be this broken, but I can't imagine what I'm doing wrong. See screenshot...

Posted on Sep 16, 2019 4:54 PM

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Posted on Sep 16, 2019 5:13 PM

You are asking it to find the word social, or any string containing the word social in every file. If you want to find file(s) with the case-independent name social in the filename string, use a keyword:


name:social


You may benefit from the use of keywords in the Narrow your search results on Mac.

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Sep 16, 2019 5:13 PM in response to lucky_hack

You are asking it to find the word social, or any string containing the word social in every file. If you want to find file(s) with the case-independent name social in the filename string, use a keyword:


name:social


You may benefit from the use of keywords in the Narrow your search results on Mac.

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