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10.7 Lion Spotlight doesn't search for dollar sign ($) anymore?

Ok, I just upgraded my work laptop to Lion 10.7.2 and I'm having serious issues with spotlight and finder. It seems you can no longer use the dollar sign ($) as a search operator?!?!


I'm a Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner user and have very few paper documents. This includes scanning all of my receipts and naming them with the total at the end.


So if I had a receipt that was for $5.35, the end of the filename would include "... $5.35".


If I try to find the file via spotlight and search for "$5.35" nothing comes up...


If I search for "5.35", the receipt comes up.


Euros (€) searches correctly, but not the dollar sign...


What is going on here? This is seriously hampering my productivity and saved searches!


Anytone else having this issue? Google didn't seem to turn up any results and I can't be the only one seeing this behavior!?

Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Feb 6, 2012 3:04 AM

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10.7 Lion Spotlight doesn't search for dollar sign ($) anymore?

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