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funkuup

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Mar 7, 2011
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How do I turn OFF searching of my /library/mail folders? If I wanted to search my mail folders, I'll do it from my mail client. Having finder return a bunch of crap from my mail folders makes searching pretty much pointless. I just want to search my hard drive. Thats it.

Does anyone know how to turn this off?

Note I'm using 10.5.8. And I don't really have the option to upgrade. I'm Searching in the finder window. Searching in the spotlight window seems to return the same results. Is the search toolbar in Finder different from spotlight? or are they the same thing?

In spotlight preferences I've unchecked the Mail folder and on the privacy tab have added the Library folder to the list to not search, but it still searches /library/mail/ :mad:

Anyone have any ideas?
 
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