OS X Spotlight annoyance question: how to get Spotlight to stick to the folder it's in? [more inside]
posted by Kosh on Mar 15, 2009 - 4 answers

Can Spotlight index websites? [more inside]
posted by Chris4d on Mar 6, 2009 - 7 answers

How can I set up my Mac to search Firefox history with Spotlight? [more inside]
posted by monkey85 on Nov 29, 2008 - 8 answers

Yippee - Firefox 3.0 has landed. Will this solve the most glaring problem with Firefox 2.x - unlike native Mac app Safari, Firefox can't load pdf's inline. [more inside]
posted by ericbop on Jun 17, 2008 - 6 answers

My mac hangs at login, showing only the blue desktop pattern and the spotlight icon in the upper right, but no menus, no icons on the desktop. [more inside]
posted by Wild_Eep on Nov 7, 2007 - 10 answers

Will the Spotlight indexing on my Leopard update never end? It's been on blue barber pole for 12 hours now and it's dragging everything with it. What can I do? [more inside]
posted by MiguelCardoso on Oct 31, 2007 - 22 answers

How can I search for specific strings of text within multiple individual text files in Mac OSX 10.4? [more inside]
posted by DiscourseMarker on Jun 14, 2007 - 9 answers

Please! Stop the Mac OSX Spotlight from indexing. [more inside]
posted by phyrewerx on Dec 14, 2006 - 4 answers

Something is badly broken in the search on my Mac. It can't find ANY zip or rar files, and it doesn't necessarily find everything matching a given query. E.g. - if I search for "pink", it finds one of 3 Pink Floyd folders and it only finds Pink Floyd tracks within one of those three folders, though a different one than the actualy folder it found! Can/should Spotlight be re-indexed? Are there any hacks to roll back to the old search? Should I just go with a 3rd party search app?
posted by badstone on Feb 16, 2006 - 5 answers

Spotlight vs. Launchbar in OS X 10.4.2? [more inside]
posted by cahlers on Sep 28, 2005 - 13 answers

Spotlight in OS X 10.4 -- doesn't seem to index the actual contents of files and emails. Searching for known terms produces no hits. Mac Mini, 3 mos. old. Any ideas?
posted by words1 on Sep 26, 2005 - 9 answers