search text string in filename AND content of files with same search task

[bill99]

Hello Forum

1.
Does MacOS include a search-feature which does search text-strings in the filename and during the same run/task
in the content of multiple files of a selected folder?


2.
Are all search-hints listed is the same result-list? Uindependently if the search-feature did find the requested text-string
in the filename or in the content of a file ?



Thank you very much!


Bill

 

[gilby101]

a. When using Command-Space to open Spotlight window, the search results will include both filename and file content results from anywhere.

b. Using Search in Finder give you more control. You can specify search by name and/or by content and the context can be either the current folder or the whole Mac. The search results are always one list of files.

 

[bill99]

Thanks a lot Gilby for your feedback!

I do prefer the Finder-method (also because it gives me the impression, that my search are not sent to the Internet

What surprises me, is that search hints are not highlighted in the content of a PDF/A (this is a PDF with an image-layer
on the top of the text).


Question:
Really no way to enable search hint highlighting within PDF/A's?


Thank you very much!

Bill


PS
I am aware that normally only high end fulltext-retrieval systems(e.g. like Google books) do offer this fuctionality,
but I hoped that MacOS does as well......

 

[gilby101]

Really no way to enable search hint highlighting within PDF/A's?

My understanding of search 'hints' is somewhat vague, but I think that search hints in macOS are limited to specific apps and not related to content of PDF/As.

I had to look up what is a PDF/A. That shows the depth (or otherwise) of my knowledge

Regarding macOS and PDFs I think it is fair to say that at first glance macOS seems have ubiquitous support for PDF, but when you dig a bit harder it really is only 'consumer' PDFs (for want of a better term). Anything more needs other software and, even then, the expensive version - for example I use PDFpen occasionally but export to PDF/A requires the more expensive PDFpen Pro.

 

[bill99]

Ok I understand... Thanks a lot Gilby for your help!

Bill