Adds file type identification to the Drop window, to help explain why Spotlight might misclassify a file and refuse to index its content as expected.
Category Archive: Macs
Have your Time Machine backups become irregular, or stopped altogether? Are software updates infrequent, or malware scans rare? Find the answers here.
Apple has just released its first update to XProtect for all versions of macOS since early June, bringing […]
One JSON text file consistently found a search term that another contained, but could never find. How do some documents get fully indexed, but others don’t, and can’t be searched?
This adds extensive information about the current locale and language settings, and is fully compatible with macOS 27.
I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 368. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Its actions […]
Spotlight’s search window provides ‘AsYouTypeTopHit’ ranked search, including a measure of recency, 3 opaque scores, related search, and hits across multiple search domains. Here’s how it does that.
From the outset, Spotlight has included websites and other items in ranked search, and local files listed exhaustively using filters. As we work with ever more data, ranking is becoming more important in our search methods.
Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Its actions […]
How many sections in System Settings do you need to set your Mac’s primary language? If you use language-specific Accessibility features, where are they? And where to find Apple’s list of supported languages for the many features in macOS?
