Viewing comments by default; finding files with comments

I searched the various preferences but did not see this: Is there a way to tell Acrobat to open files with the comments list showing?
Also, I have a folder of PDFs that have been indexed with catalog. Only a few of the files have comments. Is there any way to construct a search for "any PDF with a comment"? What I've been doing is using the user ID that Acrobat automatically places in edits, but that won't help for long, as the number of people doing comments will increase, and some future documents will have those IDs in regular text.

LarryHN:
1) your suggestion will not work for the issue I'm describing: if I have both Raw and Jpeg files of the same image on my SD card, the iPad sort of lumps these together, so when I view the contents of my SD card it shows as one image/file, and if I select it and download it, it brings over both the Raw and Jpeg versions of the image, which is what I am trying to avoid and why I started the tread in the first place.
2) I spoke with sales people at two Apple stores and one person with their online sale, and none of them could addrss my issue. The online sales person said she might have to put me through to their tech people to resolve this or at least get the full, correct info. None of them were janitors.
I did find a workaround which I think will work:
Download the files over to my iPad, then use an app like Photo Manager Pro to be able to view the files by type, then select the Raw files and delete them from my iPad. This will work I hope, but seems like a lot of extra work for a device that's supposed to be user friendly--I think Apple missed the boat on this one, opting for making things 'simple' instead of functional for photographers.

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Hey Folks,
this is strange, maybe someone has an idea.
I already searched the internet for a while, nothing found so far.
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When I type "calc" in spotlight, it shows the file.
But when I type "calc_" it suddenly does not show the file anymore. Nor does find the file, when I enter "calc_mean.m" in spotlight.
When I enter "calc mean.m" in spotlight, it finds it (using space instead of the underscore).
Now comes the real surprise:
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Playing around a bit more, it seems spotlight does find files with underscore when they are documents, at least it works for the following extensions:
.pdf
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.txt
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.m
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All of those have meaning in various database search syntax (not sure if it matters).
_ usually means any character.
% usually means any run of characters.
- is often used to negate what comes next, i.e. "don't include results that have the following text."
I don't see any problem on my Mac, though.
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Are you just looking to find if any two files underneath a folder have the same name?
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Hello
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