What happened to my search function hotkey?

So i used to be able to open the search function by pressing shftcmdF, but since a recent hard drive format this doesn't work anymore. What happened? How can i fix it?

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Here is a link to the Announcement.
And a subsequent Announcement.
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I created the z-find folder on my Macintosh-HD then copy it over to my Spotless flash drive. This means both searches searched for it the same file names. See below for the list of file names.
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bash-backup-copy-invisible-attr.html
bash-backup-inside-bash-copy.html
bash-backup-inside-bash.html
bash-backup.html
bash-batChmod.html
bash-battery__yellow__4k.html     {labeled with the Yellow attribute}
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Perform the Classic Mac OS search without the spotlight database.
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Here is what I did:
I installed the spotless application.
http://www.fixamac.net/software/spot/
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mac $ pwd
/Volumes/Spotless
mac $ ls -ld .Spotlight-V100
drwx------   4 mac staff 136 Jan 22 23:51 .Spotlight-V100
mac $ ls -l .Spotlight-V100
total 16
-rw-------   1 mac staff 55 Jan 22 23:51 _IndexPolicy.plist
-rw-------   1 mac staff 58 Jan 22 23:51 _rules.plist
_IndexPolicy.plist:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Policy</key>
    <integer>3</integer>
</dict>
</plist>
_rules.plist:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Spot_Auto</key>
    <integer>1</integer>
</dict>
</plist>
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mac $ pwd
/Volumes/Spotless/iMac/z-find
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bash-backup-copy-invisible-attr.html
bash-backup.html
bash-batChmod.html
bash-battery__yellow__4k.html
bash-copy/
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bash-folder__green/
./.bash-copy-initial-dot:
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bash-backup-inside-bash.html
ping_command_as_Give.html
./bash-copy:
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bash-backup-inside-bash-copy.html
ping_command-bash-copy.html
./bash-copy-invisible-attr:
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mac $
I performed the search for files containing "bash-" in the name field.
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bash-backup-inside-bash-copy.html
bash-backup.html
bash-batChmod.html
bash-battery__yellow__4k.html     {labeled with the Yellow attribute}
bash-copy    {folder}
bash-folder__green    {folder and labeled with the Green attribute}
ping_command-bash-copy.html
Limitations:
Does not search in Unix hidden folders. That is folders beginning with a period (.) .
Sometimes will find files beginning with a period (.).
Does not find Mac OS invisible files.
Using the special features nulls out the search.
The Search for field seems to give the same result as using the name field.
Related tips:
• by Baltwo
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050501162147222
If you haven't run Leopard, note that finding stuff is different than Tiger's.
See http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/Leopard/leospot.html and my mod to Finder's Find at http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=6725932 for what you can change so you can find stuff excluded by the default structure.
• "Searching for files by name"
http://cocoacafe.wordpress.com/2007/06/17/fscatalogsearch/
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• FindAnyFile
"Contrary to Spotlight, it does not use a database but instead uses the file system driver's fast search operations."
http://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/index.html
• Use the Terminal find command to list files from multiple directories.
Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
mac $ find ~/Desktop/iMac/z-find -iname "*bash-*" -exec ls -dF {} \;
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/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/.bash-copy-initial-dot/
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/.bash-copy-initial-dot/bash-backup-inside-bash.ht ml
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-backup-copy-invisible-attr.html
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/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-copy-invisible-attr/
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mac $
• findfile
"Here’s a simple command-line tool which uses FSCatalogSearch to search for files by name.
usage: findfile -r   "
Here is where to find: findfile.
http://cocoacafe.wordpress.com/2007/06/17/fscatalogsearch/
I am searching file names containing "bash-" in the directory "/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find".
Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
mac $ ~/findfile -r /Volumes/Macintosh-HD/ "bash-" |\
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man find
man grep
for cryptic details.
Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
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/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-backup.html
/Users/mac/Desktop/iMac/z-find/bash-copy/bash-backup-inside-bash-copy.html
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