Chapter 6
Sifting Through Your Stuff
IN THIS CHAPTER
Mastering basic Spotlight search skills
Selecting text and keywords for best results
Displaying results in the Finder search window
Customizing Spotlight within System Preferences
What would you say if I told you that you could search your entire system for all the data connected with a person — and in only the short time it takes to type that person’s name? I’m not talking just about files and folders that might include that person’s name. I mean every email message and every Calendar event that references that person — and that person’s Contacts card to boot. Heck, how about if that search could dig up every occurrence of the person’s name inside your PDF documents? What if it could search folders shared on other Macs across your network?
You’d probably say, “That makes for good future tech. I’ll bet I can do that in five or ten years. It’ll take Apple at least that long to do it — and just in time for me to buy a new MacBook! (Harrumph.)”
Don’t be so hasty. You can do all this right now. (In fact, this functionality has been ...
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