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Lacero said:
Why search for it when you can see it right below on the desktop?
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Nice. :D

BTW, the same pattern I mentioned above (search does not work with underscores) also continued to be true when I moved the file to my documents folder...which makes me suspect more that it is the underscore at issue and not the desktop.
 
mkrishnan said:
A few reviewers reported this too...seems most of the people with this issue have iMac G5s. Do you also? FWIW, I, like Munkle, have no problems with AE re-acquiring a signal on wake. I imported my keychain, got asked to allow the connection tool to use the keychain, and both my home (AEBS) and school (some kind of WEP 802.11b I think) work fine. More bars too, although I haven't tested my computer in the rooms in school where it seemed to be just out of connection reach yet, so it might be artificial.
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I'm using a Powerbook and it would autoconnect for me in Panther. I imported the keychain as well when I first used Tiger, but no dice. I guess I'll try setting up the wireless connection in Tiger to see if that works.
 
Lacero said:
Why search for it when you can see it right below on the desktop? Maybe Spotlight is mocking you.
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maybe your mocking me and unable to add anything helpful. obviously if some can find things on their desktop and others cant....its a problem with spotlight. also if you understood the whole scenario you would see that my "documents" folder isnt searchable as well. to add another little grain of salt to your wound who are you to assume you know how all should or do compute. if you saw the desktop in question you would understand why i would like to use spotlight to search it.

your view is very windows. "why search for it"?

why ask why? why cant i just use the software feature the way its advertised?

sorry but your the last person in a very long day that has asked me to deal with inadequacy when performance is promised.


go ahead and dig into my post but if you read it you know what i say is true. i should be able to search the desktop (and my documents folder) regardless of what your narrow perspective suggests.
 
mkrishnan said:
Did searching for it without the underscore work, or not?
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searching for just the word "roxy" alone doesnt work. i think eventually an update might fix the issue. you know the funny thing is, even if i open a finder window and view the desktop...then do a search for the word "roxy"...it still doesnt see the file.

anyway. enough...i can wait. although according to the laziness of some around here its apparently something apple doesnt need to fix. i wonder if steve jobs feels that way about his product. i doubt it...sounds more like a bill gates approach.
 
beatle888 said:
anyway. enough...i can wait. although according to the laziness of some around here its apparently something apple doesnt need to fix. i wonder if steve jobs feels that way about his product. i doubt it...sounds more like a bill gates approach.
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Lacero is a good guy...he was just having fun with you. You can interpret it that way if you want to, and its certainly reasonable to expect that Apple's software works as advertised for every user who follows a reasonable upgrade procedure, but the fact that it works for many of us means that it's more of a glitch that crept up somewhere in the install process than a huge flaw in the way Spotlight was designed.... Hopefully, though, it will get better. People have already pointed out things it doesn't do that it should (and doesn't appear to do for anyone, such as search MIDI metadata, even though MIDI is a quicktime format and quicktime formats are generally supported by spotlight).
 
mkrishnan said:
Lacero is a good guy...he was just having fun with you. You can interpret it that way if you want to, and its certainly reasonable to expect that Apple's software works as advertised for every user who follows a reasonable upgrade procedure, but the fact that it works for many of us means that it's more of a glitch that crept up somewhere in the install process than a huge flaw in the way Spotlight was designed.... Hopefully, though, it will get better. People have already pointed out things it doesn't do that it should (and doesn't appear to do for anyone, such as search MIDI metadata, even though MIDI is a quicktime format and quicktime formats are generally supported by spotlight).
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i agree with you 100%. even about Lacero. thank you for your reason.
 
are spelling typos "bugs?"...while creating a smart folder i went to the list of search attributes to create my folder. while scrolling down the list, i saw "Staring" and the description is "Name of actors starring in the...". oops. missing an "r" there. stupid bug, not worth mentioning, but mentioned nonetheless.

edit: now that i run through the list, i recognized that it might not be on everyone's computer b/c it seems to be a Delicous Library search attribute. probably installed with DL and it's a DL bug, not Apple's
 
Any suggestions as to how to have Spotlight index my email messages (Entourage)? I have a few old emails in Mail and Spotlight finds them but finds nothing in Entourage.

FWIW, it finds files and folders on my desktop.
 
Sorry if someone has posted these before, I can't be bothered reading the whole thread! There are a couple of visual bugs with the new combined title/toolbars. I have opened bugs on Radar for both.

1) If you are using this look and have the toolbar set with a selected item (think preferences window) and hide then show the toolbar the rounded top and bottom of the selection get clipped.

Example

2) If you are using this look and display a sheet and then an application modal alert whilst the sheet is showing, once the alert and sheet clear the titlebar is the wrong colour.

Example
 
beatle888 said:
well this is what happens when i search for something on the desktop...please note the file sitting right there on the desktop and the file name entered in spotlight. if anyone can help i would appreciate it.
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Well, all I can say is that it finds things on my desktop, with or without underscores (see attachment). Only suggestion, if you have gone through the usual repairing permissions, deleting preference file etc., is to re-index and if that's not helping re-install Tiger...

(I will have to do that myself later because for some insane reason Firefox just will not run after I archived and installed Tiger, it crashes on startup, so if 10.4.1 doesn't fix that I'll do a clean install later this summer...)

Lacero said:
Why search for it when you can see it right below on the desktop? Maybe Spotlight is mocking you.
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Funny... not very productive, but very funny... :D
 
rdowns said:
Any suggestions as to how to have Spotlight index my email messages (Entourage)? I have a few old emails in Mail and Spotlight finds them but finds nothing in Entourage.

FWIW, it finds files and folders on my desktop.
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The only way to have Spotlight index Entourage messages, or any file type currently not supported by Spotlight, is to add an appropriate plug-in. In your case, you're waiting for Microsoft to write one. Last I heard, Microsoft said that writing a Spotlight plug-in for Entourage compared to the same for Mail isn't as easy because Entourage uses a proprietary database format, and that they're working with Apple on finding the best solution.
 
wrldwzrd89 said:
The only way to have Spotlight index Entourage messages, or any file type currently not supported by Spotlight, is to add an appropriate plug-in. In your case, you're waiting for Microsoft to write one. Last I heard, Microsoft said that writing a Spotlight plug-in for Entourage compared to the same for Mail isn't as easy because Entourage uses a proprietary database format, and that they're working with Apple on finding the best solution.
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The base problem underlying this is that Spotlight works on a per-file basis. So each file only appears in the index once. In Mail 2.0 Apple has changed the way that mail is stored to make it work with Spotlight. In the past all mail in a single mailbox was stored in a single large .mbox file. Now each message is stored in it's own file.

Unless MS change how Entourage works it will not work with Spotlight (unless Apple undate Spotlight).

So how does AddressBook (or iCal) manage it. The apps also store multiple entries in a single file. Well it turns out both also store a 1 entry per file version that gets indexed by Spotlight and when that is opened the app opens itself and displays the appropriate entry from it's database. Perhaps this is the way that MS could go?
 
Dunno if this has been posted before, i'm to lazy to read through the thread. i discovered a bug with finder: if there is folder with like 5 files in it and one of the files is way below the others, like 2 or 3 rows and you have to scroll down to see it. if you move the file up the scrollbars disappear and you can't see the files above, you have to "drag" your way up... anybody else noticed this?
 
shorty116 said:
Dunno if this has been posted before, i'm to lazy to read through the thread. i discovered a bug with finder: if there is folder with like 5 files in it and one of the files is way below the others, like 2 or 3 rows and you have to scroll down to see it. if you move the file up the scrollbars disappear and you can't see the files above, you have to "drag" your way up... anybody else noticed this?
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I moved a large amount of files out of a window from the bottom and was left with a blank white window and no way of getting back to the top other than pressing back and reopening the window. I think it's the same problem, it's heaps annoying. :(
 
I have Mail as one of my startup items and I checked the box to hide it after startup, but it stays active on my desktop instead.
 
I don't know if it's a bug or not, but I can't eject a CD from the internal drive....it locks up my system. :mad:

I've also noticed that fast user switching isn't so fast anymore...it takes 5-10 seconds to switch...much slower than previously.

Also, I guess that the install of Tiger doesn't copy over the appropriate startup files for any Adobe software (Photoshop, Illustrator)...so those programs quit on startup.

Overall I'm not very happy with Tiger. Spotlight is very clunky on my system...then again, it's trying to search through 360 Gig. It takes at least 12 seconds to complete a simple search. I'm still thinking of reverting.
 
crazytom said:
Also, I guess that the install of Tiger doesn't copy over the appropriate startup files for any Adobe software (Photoshop, Illustrator)...so those programs quit on startup.
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This is normal -- if you take the PS directory in the apps folder and copy it from one mac to another, it also will not run on the second mac. Just reinstall it, Tom!

The CD thing sounds nasty, though, eep! :( Hope you find more things to like and good luck either way (I'm sure you can get rid of your copy easily if you decide you don't want it).
 
shorty116 said:
Dunno if this has been posted before, i'm to lazy to read through the thread. i discovered a bug with finder: if there is folder with like 5 files in it and one of the files is way below the others, like 2 or 3 rows and you have to scroll down to see it. if you move the file up the scrollbars disappear and you can't see the files above, you have to "drag" your way up... anybody else noticed this?
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in the process of reporting this bug.

EDIT: officially filed.
 
Stuffit

Anybody else having problems with expansion of .sit files since installing Tiger? Twice now i've downloaded .sit files and can't 'open' them, I've tried dropping them manually on the Stuffit icon but it doesn't work... any fixes for this would be appreciated. Also, whasup with the iTunes widget, temperamental isn't it? Other than this, Tiger rocks, definitely impressed with spotlight!
 
Photoshop 7 works fine after Archive and Install

My copy of Photoshop 7 worked fine after doing an Archive and Install of Tiger. I just had to assure I hit cancel with that annoying startup dialog that "checks" with Adobe to "download" whatever. After doing that once, all was well.
 
Stuffit requires reinstallation after upgrade

I had to reinstall Stuffit Standard 8.0.2 after the upgrade, then all was fine. Be sure to check that you don't have multiple copies in your Utilities folder.
 
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