| Re: Newbie seeking advice on replacing Spotlight [message #558 is a reply to message #557] |
Sat, 08 July 2017 19:53   |
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Hello,
In response to your questions, it sounds like you would be better served by a Pro 5-user license on several accounts:
- Regular expression searching is indeed only available in Pro
- Personal and Pro are licensed per Mac, so a 5-user is economically cheaper than several single-user licenes
- You set of files on each Mac can be indexed and the index served to the other Pro clients which makes indexing and searching much faster for eac Mac
In terms of settings, not much to change from the default settings, probably you would be best served by indexing only those folders containing documents + the default types such as mail, calendar and so on for each Mac
The recommended way to find files of as specific type would be to perform your search and then use the categorization feature to filter out all non-image documents for instance.
Kind regards,
jean michel/ctm qa
> On Jul 8, 2017, at 7:42 PM, SpivR wrote:
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> I'm evaluating the Personal Edition of Foxtrot Search (but open to using the Pro version if needed) to replace macOS Spotlight.
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> I've been searching (sorry for the pun) for a fix to one key problem and Foxtrot Search seems to be the solution:
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> I have 3 Macs, each one has a unique set of files that I need to use from all of them so I use macOS file sharing to expose a folder from each Mac to all the others. (One has "programming/development files", one has "business/corporate files", and one has "personal/finance" files.)
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> I have never been able to get Spotlight to search network drives having fiddled with both AFP and SMB sharing protocols, command line utilities (mdutil) and never got it to work so I am grateful to find FoxTrot Search.
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> I had (personal edition) index all the shared volumes, both files and contents. (I understand that personal uses a single index).
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> My questions:
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> General - any recommended settings or options I should be using? Not sure if I should start digging around or just leave everything set to defaults until I encounter a specific need that points me towards changing a setting.
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> I would like to be able to search for files of a specific type. Right now, I want to locate a graphics logo file that I know is created in Adobe Illustrator so I would like to search for all file names that end in ".ai" What is the best way to do that? Is there a search option to only search file types or a way to enter a simplified "*.ai" or do i have to upgrade to Pro and use regular expressions?
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