November 2012
Intermediate to advanced
424 pages
11h 59m
English
| Tip 275 | Force a File to be Found via Spotlight |
Sometimes you might find a particular file simply won’t appear in Spotlight’s search results, even though you know it should. For example, you’re searching for files containing the text quarterly report, but you later find that the file Quarterly report 2012.xls in your Documents folder simply didn’t show up.
The solution is as follows. Open a Terminal window (open Finder, select the Applications list, and then in the list of applications double-click Terminal within the Utilities folder), and type mdimport; then specify the filename and location (or just drag and drop the file onto the Terminal window to autocomplete these details).
For example, to import the file mentioned ...
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