Spotlight’s search window is incremental and ranks search results across many domains. How this works in practice, and why it may not be ideal when searching for files.
Core Spotlight
Two apps using Core Spotlight, compared with respect to indexing of new entries, and searching. Quick tests to tell whether an app uses Core Spotlight, and what that brings.
Because Spotlight and Core Spotlight are so different, you can’t tackle problems with corespotlightd using tools and techniques that work for Spotlight.
The phrase repeated throughout WWDC was ‘semantic search’. How does fit in with Spotlight, and how could it benefit those who aren’t so enthused by advanced AI?
Some services can only be run when a MacBook Air or Pro is awake and running on mains (AC) power. Here’s a list, and what you can do to ensure their work still gets done.
How Spotlight works, Core and global Spotlight, importing failure, exclusions from indexing, re-indexing, excessive re-indexing, failure to find, iCloud Drive and network shares.
All you need to know about the main services in iCloud, the limits imposed on them by Apple, and how access to them can be controlled.
Why doesn’t Spotlight seem able to return search results for files stored in iCloud Drive? And a strange feature discovered in extended attributes.
Immediate actions to get the best result from your search, and how to tackle even the most deep-seated of Spotlight problems.
It has its own folder in ~/Library, and no less than 7 of its own Private Frameworks. But what is it, and what does it do? This is as much as I know about it.
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