Can Spotlight Search Multiple Sources Simultaneously?

Stupid question here - I have pictures on both my Mac and on a shared drive. Is there a way to select both "This Mac" and "Shared" as sources for the Spotlight search? Yeah, I know it's relatively simple to keep all my search criteria the same and click from "This Mac" to "Shared" - that's what I'm doing now - but it would be convenient to have them on the same list.

engstrom wrote:
Stupid question here - I have pictures on both my Mac and on a shared drive. Is there a way to select both "This Mac" and "Shared" as sources for the Spotlight search?
no, this is currently not possible. it was possible in 10.4 but for some mysterious reason the ability was removed from Leopard's spotlight.

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