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From: Valente Silva on 25 Feb 2010 08:27
Hello all

What I have to do to search my time machine 320 Gb external drive using
spotlight, in Snow Leopard?

Greeting from Portugal.


From: David Empson on 25 Feb 2010 09:37
Valente Silva <lidador2003(a)yahoo.com.br> wrote:

> What I have to do to search my time machine 320 Gb external drive using
> spotlight, in Snow Leopard?

You can't search the Time Machine backup drive directly using Spotlight
(or Finder's Find command, or other software which uses the Spotlight
index).

You can search the backup while in the "outer space" Time Machine view.

My preferred method:

Start by using Cmd-F in Finder, enter the search criteria you want. The
location to search should be either "This Mac" or the folder on your
MAIN hard drive where the item was originally located (or a parent
folder, if you don't remember exactly where the file was).

Then use the "Enter Time Machine" command (e.g. from the Time Machine
status menu, or the Dock icon if you haven't got rid of it).

You can then use the up-arrow button in the "outer space" view to step
backwards in time, or the timeline on the right if you remember roughly
when the file existed. If you use the up-arrow and down-arrow buttons,
Time Machine usually jumps backwards until the search results change,
but I've found it sometimes needs some extra nudging.

I think you can reverse the order of the first two steps (Enter Time
Machine first, then do a Cmd-F, but you still need to be in the right
folder on your main drive if you want to search a specific location).

--
David Empson
dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz
From: Valente Silva on 25 Feb 2010 10:08
Works fine and it was nicely explained. Thanks a lot.


On 10/02/25 14:37, in article 1jei491.162llnchpyepiN%dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz,
"David Empson" <dempson(a)actrix.gen.nz> wrote:

> Valente Silva <lidador2003(a)yahoo.com.br> wrote:
>
>> What I have to do to search my time machine 320 Gb external drive using
>> spotlight, in Snow Leopard?
>
> You can't search the Time Machine backup drive directly using Spotlight
> (or Finder's Find command, or other software which uses the Spotlight
> index).
>
> You can search the backup while in the "outer space" Time Machine view.
>
> My preferred method:
>
> Start by using Cmd-F in Finder, enter the search criteria you want. The
> location to search should be either "This Mac" or the folder on your
> MAIN hard drive where the item was originally located (or a parent
> folder, if you don't remember exactly where the file was).
>
> Then use the "Enter Time Machine" command (e.g. from the Time Machine
> status menu, or the Dock icon if you haven't got rid of it).
>
> You can then use the up-arrow button in the "outer space" view to step
> backwards in time, or the timeline on the right if you remember roughly
> when the file existed. If you use the up-arrow and down-arrow buttons,
> Time Machine usually jumps backwards until the search results change,
> but I've found it sometimes needs some extra nudging.
>
> I think you can reverse the order of the first two steps (Enter Time
> Machine first, then do a Cmd-F, but you still need to be in the right
> folder on your main drive if you want to search a specific location).

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