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From: isw on 24 Dec 2009 15:00 Why is it that when I do a Spotlight search on "Contents", no matter what the search phrase is (even random characters), there's always a bunch of iCal files in the result? None of them contains anything of significance concerning what I am searching for. Plus, if you click on them, no path info is displayed, so you can't even find out where they are. I was looking for "DSC00144" (part of the name of a JPEG image), and I got 9 hits that were iCal files. How do I make them go away? Isaac
From: nospam on 24 Dec 2009 15:26 In article <isw-DDD856.12005024122009@[216.168.3.50]>, isw <isw(a)witzend.com> wrote: > Why is it that when I do a Spotlight search on "Contents", no matter > what the search phrase is (even random characters), there's always a > bunch of iCal files in the result? None of them contains anything of > significance concerning what I am searching for. Plus, if you click on > them, no path info is displayed, so you can't even find out where they > are. > > I was looking for "DSC00144" (part of the name of a JPEG image), and I > got 9 hits that were iCal files. > > How do I make them go away? spotlight preference panel, uncheck the categories you are not interested in.
From: Barry Margolin on 24 Dec 2009 16:42 In article <isw-DDD856.12005024122009@[216.168.3.50]>, isw <isw(a)witzend.com> wrote: > Why is it that when I do a Spotlight search on "Contents", no matter > what the search phrase is (even random characters), there's always a > bunch of iCal files in the result? None of them contains anything of > significance concerning what I am searching for. Plus, if you click on > them, no path info is displayed, so you can't even find out where they > are. Are they named corestorage.ics? The corestorage.ics files live in ~/Library/Application Support/iCal/Sources/<random-looking-string>.calendar/. There's a ..calendar folder for each calendar in iCal, and the corestorage.ics file in it contains all the calendar entries. If these are some other .ics file, they're probably email attachments containing meeting invites. If you can find the files, you could try looking at them. They're plain text files containing the event information, so you could open it in a text editor to see where the string you're looking for appears. > I was looking for "DSC00144" (part of the name of a JPEG image), and I > got 9 hits that were iCal files. I don't get any matches. -- Barry Margolin, barmar(a)alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** *** PLEASE don't copy me on replies, I'll read them in the group ***
From: salgud on 24 Dec 2009 17:39 On Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:00:50 -0800, isw wrote: > Why is it that when I do a Spotlight search on "Contents", no matter > what the search phrase is (even random characters), there's always a > bunch of iCal files in the result? None of them contains anything of > significance concerning what I am searching for. Plus, if you click on > them, no path info is displayed, so you can't even find out where they > are. > > I was looking for "DSC00144" (part of the name of a JPEG image), and I > got 9 hits that were iCal files. > > How do I make them go away? > > Isaac I find that Spotlight, as great as it is, always gives me a lot of annoying "detritus" with most searches. I use Evernote for keeping all kinds of miscellaneous info, and I usually get a number of Evernote notes with a Spotlight query that don't have the text in the query at all. Don't know where they come from, much less how to get rid of them, other than removing EN from the search entirely, which I don't want. I just want to see only those notes that contain the query text. I view it as the downside of having such a powerful search tool, which is one of the things I miss most when I'm at a Windoze machine.
From: isw on 24 Dec 2009 23:56
In article <241220091526417136%nospam(a)nospam.invalid>, nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > In article <isw-DDD856.12005024122009@[216.168.3.50]>, isw > <isw(a)witzend.com> wrote: > > > Why is it that when I do a Spotlight search on "Contents", no matter > > what the search phrase is (even random characters), there's always a > > bunch of iCal files in the result? None of them contains anything of > > significance concerning what I am searching for. Plus, if you click on > > them, no path info is displayed, so you can't even find out where they > > are. > > > > I was looking for "DSC00144" (part of the name of a JPEG image), and I > > got 9 hits that were iCal files. > > > > How do I make them go away? > > spotlight preference panel, uncheck the categories you are not > interested in. OK; thanks. But I still don't understand why so many of those files had random collections of characters that just happened to match what I was searching for... Isaac |