Hello,
I have hundreds of .mov files yet when I enter a spotlight search with .mov, not a single .mov file appears in results.
Can anyone help, please?
Thanks!
In Finder search, or Spotlight, kind:movie +.mov will find all .mov movies in your home directory, or elsewhere if you select This Mac (in Finder).
Thanks for your reply!
I did that... Inserted here are my spotlight query to which I clicked on show in finder and that image with no results is shown here. Then I go to another file and show just a few of the .movs that exist and do not show.
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Download an app called FindAnyFile from http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/
Read the manual on the website, it is really powerful.
It will find any file on your mac. If you even want to find "hidden" files, hold the Alt/Option key when you press the Search button.
Normally, one clicks in their home folder, and initiates a search there, rather than the “This Mac” category which searches the entire Mac, including in System locations. The syntax that I provided also assumes that your Spotlight indexing is current, and that in System Preferences : Spotlight, you have the Movie category selected.
I don't use any third-party utilities to find files as the tools that I use in OS X are quite sufficient to locate what I need to find.
Thank you! Yes, I did it as you suggested and found all the files.
Funny how Spotlight is ignorant.
I cannot get it to rebuild through the instructions Apple gives.
The normal procedure is to open your System Preferences : Spotlight panel : Privacy tab, and drag/drop the boot drive icon from your Desktop into it. Wait about ten seconds, and then select the boot drive icon, and press the minus symbol to remove it from the panel. Spotlight will then reindex the boot drive.
Depending on the size of the boot drive, and categories of index items selected in the Spotlight Search Results tab, the reindexing process may take several minutes.
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