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From: Nick Naym on 28 Mar 2010 10:58
Was this changed in SL? I've reindexed Spotlight (first I tried via MainMenu
(the old free version, v. 1.7.4)...but it ran a brief effort -- _too_ brief
to be believable; I then did it via the Privacy window, which ran a
reindexing that lasted several hours). Items in the Trash still don't show
up when I search with Spotlight...but they show up when I use Find Any File.

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iMac (27", 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD) � OS X (10.6.2)

From: David Empson on 28 Mar 2010 19:10
Nick Naym <nicknaym@_remove_this_gmail.com.invalid> wrote:

> Was this changed in SL? I've reindexed Spotlight (first I tried via MainMenu
> (the old free version, v. 1.7.4)...but it ran a brief effort -- _too_ brief
> to be believable; I then did it via the Privacy window, which ran a
> reindexing that lasted several hours). Items in the Trash still don't show
> up when I search with Spotlight...

That's because Spotlight doesn't search the Trash. In effect it has a
built-in privacy rule not to search any user's Trash. I don't recall
this ever being different in earlier versions of Mac OS X.

> but they show up when I use Find Any File.

That's because Find Any File pays no attention to where a file is
located and will find it even if it is in trash.

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David Empson
dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
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