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Feb 6, 2014 4:34 AM in response to rprior59by VikingOSX,Pages v5 will save a plain text file without an extension, even if you specify it during the save. When you tell Spotlight to search for a full filename, (e.g. plain.txt) that has a hidden extension, it won't find it, because this doesn't match the true display name (plain). If you search for the latter, Spotlight will find it immediately.
Once you perform Get Info on this file and unhide the extension, then Spotlight will find it when you specify the full filename, or the partial name, because you have changed the true display name.
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Feb 6, 2014 6:07 AM in response to VikingOSXby rprior59,Thank you Viking,
my problem however are not the file names.
My problem is that Spotlight does not retrieve Pages V5 files when I try to search for content within the files. It appears that the content of the file is not indexed (as it is normally indexed by Pages v4).
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Feb 6, 2014 6:09 AM in response to rprior59by Jeff Shenk,I don't search for content much, nor do I save files with Pages 5 very often, so I haven't noticed anything to confirm or deny this behavior. I do notice, however, that my Snow Leopard system, which only has Pages '09, has version 1.0 of the iWork.mdimporter in the Spotlight folder of the computer level Library folder, while my Mavericks system which has Pages 5 installed, has version 2.0, so I think it is supposed to be indexing the content in the new file structure.
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Sep 8, 2016 12:56 AM in response to VikingOSXby Bakhmutsky,to my surprise it displays docs files better than iWorks files. Very sad.
