search results shows only partial and cannot disable preview?

Try typing "name:212" without the quotation marks.

Follow the link :

OS X El Capitan: Narrow the scope of your searches

The recommendation to use search keywords to narrow your search is a good one.

Otherwise, communicate with the OS X product team directly. Apple leadership and product teams are not participating in these posts, or will read your response to us non-Apple volunteers.

dlvo wrote:

Hello,

So, here is the thing. Engineers that are trying to make Spotlight rad and commercial had focused on the wrong usable features.

Let me tell you what problems i've encountered with it so far.

Coming from the music industry, where Macs are used as a standard, and music search functionality is a must, I really need this sorted somehow:

Search results are not so on the spot: searching for a song that has a number as the name of the song, spotlight returns no result for that song.

Spotlight decides that I only need a fraction of the search result name, not the entire filename that needs to show up in preview/results and that is a problem because I have multiple music files that have the same name as song but different artists and so, different songs. I only get the name of the song but not the artists because spotlight decides that I don't need to see the entire name of the file?

Also, why isn't there an ability to turn off the preview of files? I only need to see the entire filename to be sure that is the correct one, in the right location.

Please focus on the best functionality of the search app, not features that might never be used, like huge preview window and functions that might interfere with the original search (searching for a song named 212 and it shows calculations of 212 or anything other than the actual song which, of course, it is indexed properly).

Thank you.

You're not talking to Apple. This is a user-to-user support forum. Leave Apple feedback. They won't respond, but if enough people all chime in about the same thing, a fix could come in a future update.

http://www.apple.com/feedback

I see links are still not working. 😮

See if you can find the file(s) using one of these programs. If you go Finder/View/Show Path Bar, it will show you where it is located.

EasyFind – Spotlight Replacement

Find Any File

Find Any File can do what you want. For example I have a Bob Marley song 400 years but it has 13 in front of it because it was ripped into iTunes and was the 13th track. However, if I search with FAF for Name contains 400 and Name ends with .mp3 i get this:

If I click on the folder The Burning Reggae Soul in the search results window I'll be taken there in the Finder.