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From: dorayme on 13 Mar 2010 03:35
In article <1jfb7jd.ve12i51ouc3a1N%dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz>,
dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:

> dorayme <dorayme(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> > In article <1jfavja.nipw7r1nfdpenN%dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz>,
> > dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:
> >
> > > dorayme <dorayme(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> > >
> > > > In article
> > > > <1jf9a32.guu51c16e1p1gN%hylton.boothroyd(a)null.c0m.invalid>,
> > > > hylton.boothroyd(a)null.c0m.invalid (Hylton Boothroyd) wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I just get around five thousand reports of 55
> > > > > with whatever happens to follow.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Download the free EasyFind - I have Version 4.0.1 - and search
> > > > for " 55% " This will find any "55%" with space either side.
> > > > Won't work in Spotlight.
> > >
> > > Searching for "55%" (with the quotes) seems to work fine for me using
> > > Spotlight. It found several PDFs and web pages that contained 55%.
> >
> > Beats me. On my Tiger, it is:
> >
> > spotlight "55%" no
> > spotlight " 55% " no
>
> The difference may be that I'm on Snow Leopard. Spotlight has obviously
> improved since Tiger.

Indeed it seems so. OP was also on Tiger latest. I wonder if
EasyFind has improved on Snow too (if it is even available for
it) - recall, I got sensible results with it on " 55% " but not
on "55%" on Tiger. I conducted tests on the desktop folder where
I knew in advance what was there in respect to this "55%"

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dorayme
From: dorayme on 13 Mar 2010 13:45
In article <slrnhpn3mh.2g3g.g.kreme(a)cerebus.local>,
Lewis <g.kreme(a)gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:

> In message <dorayme-217D4B.19350813032010(a)news.albasani.net>
> dorayme <dorayme(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> >> The difference may be that I'm on Snow Leopard. Spotlight has obviously
> >> improved since Tiger.
>
> I seems to recall that in Tiger you had to use different delimiters to
> do a search for exactly the characters. (55%) perhaps? Tiger was sooooo
> long ago though, I could be miss-remembering. There is help for
> spotlight searches in the OS X help menu.

I could not find help on this *particular question* in the help
files on Tiger? Maybe I should try Spotlight? <g>

The only way I know that the OP can find what he wants *in
Tiger*, assuming that the "55%" has spaces either side, is to
search for " 55% " in the free software EasyFind.

Tiger is very much present and working to generate enough of a
chunk of stuff in the world to let its owners earn a living.

--
dorayme
From: Hylton Boothroyd on 14 Mar 2010 12:26
I wrote:

> I would be grateful for any pointers.
>
> My immediate problem: how to find 55% in Spotlight?
> [Intel MacMini 10.4.11]
>
> I just get around five thousand reports of 55
> with whatever happens to follow.

Thank you for all the comments.

It looks as though the behaviour of Spotlight may depend fairly closely
on the OS version. It remains unplumbed!

But EasyFind 4.5 did the job without any quotes.
And on a more difficult search, for what I really wanted
( �55%
[four characters:
* the-English-pound-currency-symbol
* 5
* 5
* the percent-symbol
]
), EasyFind found precisely the four instances I knew about, found no
others (that I had very much hoped would be there), and didn't report
any partial match. Splendidly specific.

Again, thanks for the pointers ...

--
Hylton
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