When I search in Finder for text within documents I get no hits for RTF files even though I know some of the contains the word searched for.
Anyone else with similar problems? And a fix maybe?
I have tried to let the Spotlight index rebuild. But that didn't help. Still no hit in rtf files.
I'm on a MacBook Pro M1 with Big Sur. rtf files were created with Nisus Writer Pro.
Regards
Anders
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15
On my Big Sur installation, with Spotlight Search Results Documents category selected, the following will find all .rtf/.rtfd documents on my Mac, while rejecting .txt documents from the results:
kind:document +.rtf -(.txt)
In Finder Preferences : Advanced : When performing a search: [ Search the Current Folder ↕︎ ]. There is nothing special about my Big Sur, and I never wipe and rebuild my Spotlight cache. It just works.
Try this:
name:.rtf
You should be able to locate a text string within .rtf files in a folder by just specifying the unquoted single word, or quoted string containing multiple words punctuated by white-space. I have an .rtf file in a folder that uses Lorem Ipsum Latin filler text. There is a word temperibus in the document:
temperibus
finds that word, and because it is a unique word, even temper finds it.
That query actually returns all the rtf docs in the searched folder. But searching for a text string in that same folder doesn't return any rtf's even though I know there should be a match.
I made a test doc with TextEdit in rtf. That doesn't show up either.
Thanks. But on mine it returns noting unfortunately. Even if done in a folder loaded with rtf's the search result is empty.
Big Sur. Finder search does not recognise rtf files