Is it my imagination, or does Leopard's Spotlight suck?

[thejadedmonkey]

haha thats quite funny!

try this untick the Apple dictionary in Dictionary's preferences and quit it. then try...

it doesnt really bother me but as the Dictionary isnt the top result. its quite useful for real definitions though.

Where did I go wrong? :'(

I did notice that if I uncheck the Apple dictionary in Dictionary's preferences iPhoto doesn't show up... but when I uncheck everything in Dictionary.app I can still get dictionary results in spotlight.

 

[keltoid]

It seems like I used to be able to find files that were last accessed (on Tiger), but now I cannot find how to separate files accessed by DATE on Leopard.

I want to know if anyone is accessing my work computer over the weekend or before I get here, as it seems to be so. Can anyone help me figure out how I can tell if files are opened when I'm not here?

googled "mac spotlight sucks" and your forum here came up. lol

 

[mysterytramp]

Try looking at the Recent Files and Recent Applications menu items under the Apple menu.

Or create a search for all files created/modified after you left on Friday.

mt

 

[ronwasserman]

2 years later and it still doesn't work very well.

 

[kdum8]

2 years later and it still doesn't work very well.

Really? I have never had any problems with spotlight... Granted I never used tiger but generally in 10.5 I have found it to be pretty good at finding things. What problems are you having?

 

[Cinder6]

I wonder who had the bright idea that people really wanted Spotlight to work as a dictionary instead of as an application opener.

Funny, that's pretty much all I use Spotlight for...