Questions tagged [search]
The act of searching for data by providing keywords which are either checked directly against contents, or against a search index in order to provide relevant results.
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Is there a way to use Google search app in Spotlight on iOS?
I've been using Android for years and decided to switch to iPhone. I am used to quick access to searching app from a home screen, so I started to use Spotlight in which I search using Chrome. Recently ...
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Finder search links to wrong files, rebuilding Spotlight index doesn't help
I'm on Sequoia, and I've started getting completely unusable results from Finder search. I search and I get what seem to be, based on the file names, the results I'm looking for. But those results ...
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How to find only folders that container specific type of item
Over the years many images exist and want to be able to find in the Finder or list somehow for export. Imagine I have taken pictures from many customers over the years and organised them in folders ...
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Need to search Dovecot mail database for keyword
A Subject Access Request has come to my department and because of this I will need search our email database for a keyword, in this case the SAR requestee's name. We (still) use Dovecot/Postfix on Mac ...
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Disable “Search in Apps” section from iOS 26 Home Screen
Search for a term from the Home Screen Scroll to the bottom You see “Search in Apps” which for me includes the entries “Search Maps” and “Search App Store” How do I disable this “Search in Apps ...
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Why does “brew search” for “peertube” match with “freetube”? How does the search work?
Why does brew search for peertube match with freetube? How does the search work? brew search peertube ==> Casks freetube brew info --cask freetube ==> freetube: 0.23.5 https://freetubeapp.io/ ...
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stop safari searching when browsing local urls
I am working on local developments on my local web server. I have dnsmasq on my mac to redirect all .test domains back to my own machine. I'll have an url like "mysite.test/some/path/1" in ...
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Finder search matches partial filename but not full filename
I've noticed that when I type Corey Hart - Sunglasses At Night into the Finder search, I get no results but Corey Hart - Sunglasses At gives the desired results. What is going on?
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Customize Search Default Locations
Finder search has three default locations: "This Mac". "Recents" and "Networks". However, I store all my files in Dropbox, which isn't one of the default search locations....
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How can I search my contacts by business name on an iPhone?
This has been going on for awhile now through various iOS.... I use apple contacts and have many contacts where ive entered a person's name along with the business name in the contact card. I have ...
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Searching for hidden and system files in Finder
Folks, does anybody understand how the Finder (= Spotlight) search really works? Test 1 I have created the following test files and folders in my $HOME: ~/ |- test0/ - regular folder |- ...
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Is there a way to search in the messages app with results filtered by user?
What I’m really after is to search all the texts between me and a friend for a certain keyword. So how do I search within a contact’s text history? I cannot figure out how to do this from my phone. ...
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Why does Finder search fail to find a word or number in filenames?
(Sequoia 15.2) I have a list of PDF files in a Desktop folder all beginning with the word "Messages" and including a phone number. I want to search for files with a specific area code. Here'...
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Spotlight not returning results for internal iMac drives - ".Spotlight-V100" folder has red forbidden sign
My iMac running [macOS High Sierra][2] has two SSD drives: 256GB with the OS on it and 2TB for data. Spotlight returns zero results when doing a search on both drives. Also other apps using Spotlight ...
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Spotlight searches: exclude iCloud
On my MPB running Sonoma with "Search: This Mac "Documents"" duly displayed, all my Spotlight search results come solely from my iCloud backup. Is there a way to force Spotlight to ...
