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Product Guide
Mac OS X Tiger
The Spotlight Preference Pane
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Choose the categories Spotlight will display in the search results window.
Rearrange the display order by dragging categories higher or lower in the list.
Customize the keyboard shortcuts you use to open the Spotlight search field from
the system menu or the Spotlight results window.
Click Privacy to add locations such as folders or hard drives that you do not want
to be included in your search results.
Powered by Spotlight
The same advanced search technologies that power the Spotlight menu also power
searching in the Finder, Mail, Address Book, and System Preferences applications.
Each application focuses its Spotlight-powered search capabilities on the type of
information it’s designed to handle—improving searches within the application and
introducing new methods of organization that will change the way you use your Mac.
Finder
With the Spotlight search technology built in, the Finder becomes an even more
powerful tool for searching and organizing your files. In addition to its already light-
ning-fast search by filename, the Finder can now find documents by text content and
metadata. You can even save searches as special folders, called Smart Folders, that
dynamically gather together all the files on your computer that match your search
criteria—no matter where the files are actually stored.
In contrast to files in regular folders, which physically store the file, a file can exist in
more than one Smart Folder. For example, a budget spreadsheet could exist in a Smart
Folder that contains all the spreadsheets on your computer and in a Smart Folder that
contains all the budget documents.
Up-to-the-minute results
A sophisticated notification system tells
Spotlight when a file on the computer has
changed. So when you add, change, or delete
a file, Spotlight knows about it immediately
and revises your search results on the fly, so
your results are always up to date.
Advanced search
Spotlight offers more advanced ways to
focus your search. Try adding “kind:images”
or “date:today” to a Spotlight search and see
how Spotlight narrows your search results
accordingly. For example, typing “Yosemite
kind:images” will find only images with
Yosemite either in the name of the image
or in the metadata of the image.
Create a Smart Folder that contains all the
presentations on your system or one that
finds all the files you’ve opened in the past
two days. You can even create a Smart Folder
that keeps track of all CMYK images that are
ready for printing.
Multilingual search
Because Mac OS X supports the latest
Unicode standards and includes a broad
selection of international fonts, you can
search for items on your computer in many
Roman, Asian, Middle Eastern, Indic, and
Cyrillic languages.