Spotlight doesn't find a file which exists!
Hello,
I have a file standing in front of my eyes which names is "Appartment".
To check this is the last version I worked on, I made
a Spotlight search of the string "ppart" (Without the initial "A" for
I can't be sure I used an uppercase first letter.)
Spotlight doesn't find anything. Not even the file "Appartment" which exists.
By clicking on "Show all" within Spotlight I see that it is searching for
"Contents". I changed it for "File Name" which is more relevant. But I
don't see if this change is taken into account immediatly or on any
other kind of action. This window stays empty.
Hence I closed it and oppened again Spotlight and asked once more for
"ppart". Still nothing. By clicking on "Show all" it went back to "Contents"
and the window is still empty. I once more changed for "File Name"
and nothing happens. Not even the smallest sign that my change is
understood. Not even a colorful rotating beach balloon 😮 !
Just to be sure I wasn't making any stupid error, I just typed in a shell:
$ find ~ -name "*ppart*" -ls [...]
and I got all the files which I expected to find.
Just in case I also checked:
$ mdutil -s / /: Indexing enabled.
I have a very bad impression of being a fool trying to speak to a deaf robot 😟.
What do I do wrong to repeatedly get such a lack of information from Spotlight?
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dan
MacOS X 10.4.11 ⟶ 10.6.6