Hi, all,
Spotlight under Lion is being an incredibly frustrating part of the OS right now. (Seriously, this whole upgrade has not made me happy.)
I want to search within files. In particular, I want to search for items with tags I embedded into them, in the Twitter style. (I'm an historian, so I'd write #revolution1917, for example, by a source for the Russian Revolution.)
I go to the Finder to search, because Spotlight in the upper right is apparently too stupid to handle searches within files.
I enter a kind of document (plain text) to narrow down my search.
I even select the folder where the documents are located, to help Spotlight out.
I hit the plus, set up "Contents" contain, and type, "#revolution1917" (minus quotes).
....and I get nothing.
I take off the hashmark, just to see if that's causing some kind of problem.
Nothing.
I'm so frustrated with this (and all the other little Lion problems) that I am close to crying.
Can anyone please offer any advice or consolation to deal with this?
Thanks for listening!
(2010 i7 MPB, by the way.)
Spotlight under Lion is being an incredibly frustrating part of the OS right now. (Seriously, this whole upgrade has not made me happy.)
I want to search within files. In particular, I want to search for items with tags I embedded into them, in the Twitter style. (I'm an historian, so I'd write #revolution1917, for example, by a source for the Russian Revolution.)
I go to the Finder to search, because Spotlight in the upper right is apparently too stupid to handle searches within files.
I enter a kind of document (plain text) to narrow down my search.
I even select the folder where the documents are located, to help Spotlight out.
I hit the plus, set up "Contents" contain, and type, "#revolution1917" (minus quotes).
....and I get nothing.
I take off the hashmark, just to see if that's causing some kind of problem.
Nothing.
I'm so frustrated with this (and all the other little Lion problems) that I am close to crying.
Can anyone please offer any advice or consolation to deal with this?
Thanks for listening!
(2010 i7 MPB, by the way.)