Searching - Files, HD, Servers - HELP!
Up until getting this new machine with Leopard on it, whenever I've done a search, on my own system or the 2-3 main Mac Servers we use, I have never had a problem finding all the files I am looking for.
Now with Leopard, I don't have great luck. When I search, I am usually searching our servers for artwork. we list things by numbers so it's easy to find. When I search now, I am lucky if the search gives me consistent results and consistent results from all my servers. Once in a great while I'll get everything, but most times I get parts of this and parts of that...and it's just that, it's a few files from one drive and some from another.
Now the WORSE part. When I click a folder to check what's inside, it flips to that folder, but if I click the back button...IT STARTS SEARCHING ALL OVER AGAIN!!! Then I usually get less results then the first time...and it's much slower. Back in Tiger, it would flip back to what the original search was, not re-search everything.
Back in Tiger, I never had these issues...what's going wrong...WHAT'S HAPPENING!
HEEEEELLLLPPPP!
Mike
P.S. Searching for art is an everyday, every hour thing. I lived by Apples great search...what happened! Any suggestions or help would be great. I read EasyFind is a good alternative, but it's very SLOW!
I understand who helps and that's what you are trying to do. Don't take offense to anything I am saying...I am just asking in general for help! :>)
I didn't know spotlight had anything to do with the regular search, I thought it only indexes your HD, not all the servers you had connected too! Interesting. Do I dare index our servers? Wouldn't that take forever and also hold a lot of old info? What if something is updated within the hour? The way the regular search works, I know if something has been updated that minute if I am searching for it.
Hmmm...I am confused now!
M
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