Inconsistent discovery of CJK-named files in cloud-synced folders on macOS

Sadly, anglophones have developed most of the software and still run the tech show. Anything that's not English is an afterthought.

Apple probably has the best support for non-English languages, but their software is confusing for everyone, including Apple.

Spotlight is highly dependent on the type of file being indexed. So you might want to run some experiments on different file types to find the one that causes the most trouble.

Cloud sync services are also a huge potential source of problems. So when you run those experiments above, you have to do them once on non-cloud, local documents, then again with documents hosted by each cloud provider, and again for cases where documents might not be resident. Very quickly you can get into situations where nobody knows how any of this works.

I would not be surprised at all if files with Chinese file names were actually recorded as English UUIDs in the file system. And this can be handled differently by different cloud services. Even if you take cloud services out of the picture, some files will always have pure English names, with a localized name being defined in some other metadata file. This can vary based on the file.

yzy66 wrote:

It seems that It also occurs in English environment. It may be rooted in the Apple's file provider which precludes the spotlight.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/onedriveblog/onedrive-for-mac-now-supports-removable-drives/4419685/replies/4452523

https://www.alfredforum.com/topic/23051-since-recent-dropbox-update-alfred-stopped-indexing-it/

That seems pretty clear. The problem must be OneDrive.

Whenever an employee in a competitor's support forum makes such an obviously false statement like, "Spotlight, the search in Finder, and `mdfind` all have different backends", you know it's got to be their fault. 😄