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On a test mdfind does still seem to pick up the system contents.

Possibly this is the kind of behaviour Apple was expecting ... I do find it odd that they didn't give an option for you to include the system searches by default, but I'm betting a bit of digging will lead to a plist change that will do this.

Yeah as soon as I saw that spotlight didn't do it by default I checked mdfind. However i usually use Property List editor to mod them it isn't that convient to use mdfind.

I actually did a bit of digging around and couldn't find it.
 
Just to dig up a dead topic, did 10.5.5 do anything to change Spotlight/finder search results?

-still hanging in with Tiger
 
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