Q: make spotlight work like it did in snow leopard
I have complained about this to apple many times. Suggestions, chats, etc. I get nowhere. I downloaded "easy find" but it isn;t that great either. My question is to make search (spotlight) work like it did in Snow leopard. Is it possible and how to do it. Search (spotlight) is 99% useless now. I search for a specific file by name and thousands of irrelavent thing show up. I want nothing but .psd files, but anything that has .psd linked to it apparently shows up. xml files, php files, .html etc, etc. It's rediculous!
It was fool proof in snow leopard, but now my work flow has been completely destroyed. I can't tell you how many times i searched for a file by specific name which is a .psd file and pdfs, show up, xml, .html, .js, scss, etc. is stupid and I HAVE NEVER created an xml file, or scss? the php files I never created are showing up, it's so frustrating.
Easy find does better, but not much. There are still hundreds of files that make no sense. I use to be able to add (negative) and not show certain types of file, like -xml and no xml files would show up, but that only work 10% of the time. What happened to the search???
iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)
Posted on May 2, 2016 12:35 PM







