![]() So I am at a loss as to why it hangs both on searching the main HD and and individual iser folder. The only thing that might have had an effect is if Spotlight hadn't finished indexing my mac, but it has as there is no flashing spot within the spyglass icon. I've opened up all folders and there are absolutely no locked files or folders in this. Now MobileSync isn't a locked system folder and it's 9Gb on my machine and I can open and see what's in it. Performed the search again, and it still happened. I removed the HD out from the spotlight 'Privacy Section' and reserted the machine, just in case this had a bearing. On a side note, what the other person says about only searching the user folders instead of the whole HD, as I then searched my user folder and went far furter, however, it still similaraly got stuck on ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync for some reason. Now you tell me Bridge is linked to Spotlight and am kinda back to square one, as I don't think spotlight is thorough enough - and therefore neither will Bridge be. This does make much more sense being linked to Spotlight as in actual fact, to prevent spotlight indexing my drive (because I don't use it), I placed the drive into the 'privacy section' of the Spotlight prefs so that it didn't search it and slow my machine speeds down. Hi Gary_sc - thanks for your kind advice. Meanwhile, see if you can find out why Spotlight is searching hidden UNIX items and Lumigraphics pointed out. (Thus, there's no need to search an entire hard drive(s) if you know the item(s) you are looking for are in one folder.) There is a free download for trial and worth checking out. the software features makes HoudahSpot 5 the best Finder alternative for Mac. It is by far the best searching tool I've seen for the Mac and provides not only boolian searches but also targeted searches to specific folders and/or hard drives. On that note, users who wish to display hidden files and folders, hide. Spotlight is a feature within the Mac OS that does searching and Apple provides the APIs so that 3rd parties can access the results to fine-tune those results for individual apps as Bridge has done.įWIW, if searching is critical to you, I'd go one step further and check out Houdahspot. So the problem may not be with Bridge but rather there is something "off" with your copy of Spotlight. And I admit that that is very weird.īut I must point out a few other things though: The search capabilities that Bridge has is based on Spotlight. ![]() Let me start by saying that I do not know what or why you are getting the search results you are getting.
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