Please, Apple, Please...

...make Spotlight optional.
Just put a "use Find File instead of Spotlight" checkbox in the Spotlight control panel.
It would make everybody happy.
Matt
PowerBook G4 15"/1.3GHz Mac OS X (10.3.9) Downgraded from 10.4 to avoid Spotlight

<Now imagine that you're a writer for a newspaper, magazine or something. Or an editor. Someone who keeps thousands of documents on their computer for reference. Can you imagine how long it would take you to find a quote, phrase or something similar without indexing if you didn't already know where the article was? Indexing records everything, including file content. You could instantly find any passage or phrase. Spotlight would then, of course, show you exactly which file it found your search phrase in. Such a person wouldn't be without it.>
I happen to be such a person, with thousands of old text files (and many other types of files, mostly images in various formats). I need to find files really fast, and I do so maybe 100 -150 times every day. In fact, finding files is the most important basic task I expect my computer to do. The old FindFile is much, much faster than constantly navigating through directories just to find a file - a hundred or more times every day. I would go completely nuts doing that. Tiger forces me to do it that way, which is why I ditched Tiger and went back to Panther - I have serious work to do and I want an OS that works with me - not an OS that I have to work with. FindFile is absolutely essential for this way of working, which I imagine I share with many others.
Occasionally I need to find text within a file - maybe twice a year. I use EasyFind for that, because it's reliable.
Even if Spotlight's indexing system was reliable - it still wouldn't be the way I need my OS to find files. But it isn't reliable at all, and every day in these forums there are new posts flagging up ever-new instances of this. See, for example, this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?forumID=757&threadID=460120

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