I was informed of an update to Silverlight on the Netflix and sent it to my downloads directory. When I typed Silverlight into the Finder and selected "Downloads" as the place to search, it came up with NOTHING even though just browsing through it in alphabetical order I can plainly see Silverlight.dmg sitting there. Typing it in with the .dmg didn't bring it up either. If I told it to look on the entire Mac, it eventually came up with the installed Silverlight directory, but it cannot find the file in the Downloads directory... I've never seen Spotlight FAIL so utterly before and so now I'm wondering if this is yet another bug in Mavericks....
Edit: While slow, it does seem to find other files now. Perhaps because this file replaced an older one, Spotlight doesn't know it exists until it updates its database or something. I don't ever remember Spotlight being this slow, though. It takes it a good 15 seconds to find a file where it used to be almost instant. I even tried turning off all filetypes except documents and folders and it still takes 15+ seconds on average to find anything and this is on an i7 QuadCore with a RAID 0 drive setup and 8GB ram.
Meanwhile, also in 10.9.2, I've noticed that Mail in 10.9.2 STILL doesn't get the latest e-mails immediately when you click on "Get Mail". It seem to get them in its own sweet time schedule (at least it gets them now eventually; before I had to exit and restart to get them to show up half the time). Check mail NOW should do just that. I've had it. Thunderbird gets the mail instantly when I tell it to check immediately (e.g. someone on the phone sends me something and I need to get it ASAP). It just seems like Apple can't fix their most basic apps anymore. It doesn't make much sense since Mountain Lion seemed as fast as Snow Leopard (my Mac Mini feels as fast, but my MBP from 2008 with only 4GB ram does feel a bit slower in Mavericks but felt find in Mountain Lion).
All I wanted as the better dual-screen support in Mavericks. I've found nothing else that is better, really except perhaps the SMB support seemed to improve in 10.9.2 (still doesn't work with older XBMC builds, though while M$'s versions work fine with all builds). Not to mention Apple ignored my bug/feedback about SLEEP mode ignoring NFS transfers going on (via XBMC) and just goes to sleep in the middle of watching a movie or TV show in the other room unless I manually disable sleep. That wasn't asking them to do much but fix the flag for it so it doesn't go to sleep. Nope. Too much to ask of the richest company in the world.
Edit: While slow, it does seem to find other files now. Perhaps because this file replaced an older one, Spotlight doesn't know it exists until it updates its database or something. I don't ever remember Spotlight being this slow, though. It takes it a good 15 seconds to find a file where it used to be almost instant. I even tried turning off all filetypes except documents and folders and it still takes 15+ seconds on average to find anything and this is on an i7 QuadCore with a RAID 0 drive setup and 8GB ram.
Meanwhile, also in 10.9.2, I've noticed that Mail in 10.9.2 STILL doesn't get the latest e-mails immediately when you click on "Get Mail". It seem to get them in its own sweet time schedule (at least it gets them now eventually; before I had to exit and restart to get them to show up half the time). Check mail NOW should do just that. I've had it. Thunderbird gets the mail instantly when I tell it to check immediately (e.g. someone on the phone sends me something and I need to get it ASAP). It just seems like Apple can't fix their most basic apps anymore. It doesn't make much sense since Mountain Lion seemed as fast as Snow Leopard (my Mac Mini feels as fast, but my MBP from 2008 with only 4GB ram does feel a bit slower in Mavericks but felt find in Mountain Lion).
All I wanted as the better dual-screen support in Mavericks. I've found nothing else that is better, really except perhaps the SMB support seemed to improve in 10.9.2 (still doesn't work with older XBMC builds, though while M$'s versions work fine with all builds). Not to mention Apple ignored my bug/feedback about SLEEP mode ignoring NFS transfers going on (via XBMC) and just goes to sleep in the middle of watching a movie or TV show in the other room unless I manually disable sleep. That wasn't asking them to do much but fix the flag for it so it doesn't go to sleep. Nope. Too much to ask of the richest company in the world.
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