| Re: FTP not indexing Scrivener files [message #1116 is a reply to message #1115] |
Wed, 23 December 2020 15:26   |
FoxTrot Engineering
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Registered: April 2020
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The following only applies to FoxTrot Pro, version 7. If FoxTrot finds some "content.rtf" files hidden inside Scrivener documents, this is because "files inside packages" and "also include files inside Spotlight-supported packages" are enabled, in the "including" popup menu in the "indexed data" pane, for the folder containing your Scrivener files.
Scrivener provides a Spotlight importer that lets FoxTrot index all the content of its documents (as far as I know, but I may be wrong), however its Quick Look plugin only displays some parts of the content (probably something as the first chapters). So you can find a document, but see no occurrence of the searched words in the preview.
You can choose "plain text" instead of "FoxTrot preview", in the display type popup menu, in the right part of the toolbar. This will display the text that has been indexed, instead of what Quick Look displays, and highlight every occurrences found. Or, if you prefer this or if some text is not returned by the Spotlight importer, enable "also include files inside Spotlight-supported packages", then you will find individual sections of your Scrivener files as rich text documents (.rtf).
Scrivener files are categorized by FoxTrot as "Document", but you can use the "by extension" categorizer to filter the files with either .scriv or .rtf extension.
If you want to search these "content.rtf" files, but not other non-Scrivener .rtf files, nor other word processor files, you can add the following criterion: [then apply advanced filter] [full path] [contains the string] [.scriv/]
Also, you can use the contextual menu on a found .rtf file; the "reveal in Finder" submenu will allow to directly select the parent .scriv file in the Finder.
Jérôme - FoxTrot Engineering
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