I sent this tip to macosxhints.com a few days ago but they didn't publish it yet. Maybe my grammar is not up to their editorial standards, or they simply are overloaded with Leopard tips. Anyway I wanted to share it with you guys:
I was very disappointed that you couldn't add the Size column to the list view in search results in Snow Leopard like you could do in Tiger, since Apple gave us the impression that Spotlight would include additional ways to sort results in SL. Only "Date Created" and "Date Modified" were added as options in SL, the others are grayed out.
Fortunately, I found a way to force the Size column to appear, as well as Comments, Version and Label columns.
You'll have to edit the com.apple.finder.plist file found in ~/Library/Preferences/ using the Property List Editor app.
Open the Root node, then ---> SearchViewSettings ---> ListViewSettings ---> columns
Then choose the column you want to activate in the column list (ie. Size), and set the "visible" key to "yes".
Save the .plist and relaunch the Finder (option-right-click on the Finder icon in the Dock).
Note: you must have done at least one search, and selected/deselected one of the available column in the view option for the search result (Date Created for example) or else your .plist file may not contain the SearchViewSettings node.
Warning: Apple probably disabled these columns in 10.6.0 for a good reason, as there may be some bugs that could cause problems on your system. I didn't have any problems with the size column, but be warned...
I was very disappointed that you couldn't add the Size column to the list view in search results in Snow Leopard like you could do in Tiger, since Apple gave us the impression that Spotlight would include additional ways to sort results in SL. Only "Date Created" and "Date Modified" were added as options in SL, the others are grayed out.
Fortunately, I found a way to force the Size column to appear, as well as Comments, Version and Label columns.
You'll have to edit the com.apple.finder.plist file found in ~/Library/Preferences/ using the Property List Editor app.
Open the Root node, then ---> SearchViewSettings ---> ListViewSettings ---> columns
Then choose the column you want to activate in the column list (ie. Size), and set the "visible" key to "yes".
Save the .plist and relaunch the Finder (option-right-click on the Finder icon in the Dock).
Note: you must have done at least one search, and selected/deselected one of the available column in the view option for the search result (Date Created for example) or else your .plist file may not contain the SearchViewSettings node.
Warning: Apple probably disabled these columns in 10.6.0 for a good reason, as there may be some bugs that could cause problems on your system. I didn't have any problems with the size column, but be warned...