Automated image analysis and other tools store keywords in many different types of files. To search effectively for keywords, though, you need to know which terms have been used.
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It can take many hours for files to be downloaded from iCloud. Apps must be able to cope with that, but how well does macOS?
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.
All about time and landmarks you can look for in the log, after booting, on shutdown, when waking from sleep, and using activities to locate mouse clicks.
The most controversial of all changes in Ventura is the move to System Settings. Although this does achieve important objective, there’s still a long and painful journey to get it right.
Time and timestamps, landmark events, activities like clicks, subsystems as predicates, Find, and bar charts – all aids to navigating the log.
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.
By any measure, Monterey’s 12.3 update is very substantial, introducing major new features like Universal Control and Spatial […]
Big Sur 11.3 fixed a bug which stopped indexing of the contents of RTF files. Here’s how to ensure all your RTFs are now accessible in Spotlight searches.
The Eclectic Light Company 