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Searching in OS X?

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eleven7

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Mar 14, 2009
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Why does Spotlight not search your system directories/files when performing a search? Does it only search within the current user's directories?

Is there anyway you can make it do a more thorough search?
 
Apple felt most people wanted to search for files that they created, which is generally inside the user directory. They did make a way for you to search the system files as well though. There's actually a good dozen threads that cover this, such as this one.
 
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