| Newbie seeking advice on replacing Spotlight [message #557] |
Sat, 08 July 2017 19:42  |
SpivR
Messages: 4
Registered: July 2017
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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.
I've been searching (sorry for the pun) for a fix to one key problem and
Foxtrot Search seems to be the solution:
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.)
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.
I had (personal edition) index all the shared volumes, both files and
contents. (I understand that personal uses a single index).
My questions:
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.
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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