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Old October 26th, 2007, 09:30 AM
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It doesn't search within words in a file name. That is if you have "Adobe Photoshop CS3.app" on your hard drive, typing in "shop" won't find it. Typing in "Pho" is enough to find it on my computer.
Same as in Tiger. It's been my biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig concern with Spotlight since its beginning. Quite obviously, someone at Apple is at war with searching within filenames. :/ It makes me sad that I have to use a 3rd party application (EasyFind) to make the whole OS work for me.
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