Is there a way to change Spotlight defaults to search by filename and to show results in List view? For some reason it recently started defaulting to icon view, and it's always searched on Content by default.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
To default to list view:
Do a search. Select list view, then in the finder window right or control click on the background and select Show View Options, then check "Always open in list view."
Don't think you can default to file name search
To default to list view:
Do a search. Select list view, then in the finder window right or control click on the background and select Show View Options, then check "Always open in list view."
Don't think you can default to file name search
Many thanks! I had set that ages ago and forgot about it; I'm not sure how it ever got unchecked.
Just saw this in another post....
Open Finder then do command-shift-F. Spotlight will now search for file name.
Dan
Thanks -- I saw that earlier, too. Oddly enough, on mine (10.6.8) it's just the opposite. Command-shift-F gets the usual content search, but Command-F gets a name search! These show up in Keyboard Prefs/Application Shortcuts, but without toggle checkboxes. Maybe I did something with Terminal awhile back and forgot about it.
Many of these discussions state that in Spotlight "This Mac" refers to locally mounted volumes but that is no longer true. Mount disk images, even if on a boot or local hard drive, are not found in Spotlight searches. Likewise, these items aren't shared.
The only way to find Spotlight results for disk images is to start with that volume selected, start a Finder spotlight search, and the select that "folder" to seach in. If you have many large disk images, you'll have to search each one seperately or create a script to do so.
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change Spotlight defaults
