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From: Hylton Boothroyd on 12 Mar 2010 14:45
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.

Basic problem: finding any reference to
- what are special characters in Spotlight,
- how to use them for their special purpose,
- how to find them with their normal text values.

Thanks

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Hylton
From: dorayme on 12 Mar 2010 17:21
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.

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dorayme
From: David Empson on 12 Mar 2010 22:11
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%.

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David Empson
dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
From: dorayme on 13 Mar 2010 00:42
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

easyfind "55%" no
easyfind " 55% " yes

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dorayme
From: David Empson on 13 Mar 2010 02:29
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.

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David Empson
dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
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