spotlight completely unreliable and buggy

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spotlight completely unreliable and buggy

Apple, when people search for things this does not mean they want to open it! 90% of the time I want to know where the file is so I can drag it onto a web app or open it in a specific program not it's one default program. Most of the time when I hold down Command, not only does the path not show up but it loads it into the default program. Such a core part of using a computer is finding your files, WHERE THEY ARE AT! And why for the love of everything good in this world does open in Finder produce 9 million more results of weird places it might be used in a code file, odd places it finds it in system files. This functionality was better 10 years ago. Yes, sometimes it shows the path underneath. Incredibly bad UX and UI....

How does the team that built this horrifically unusable core part of the OS feel like this is a good UX? On to the solution which is find another tool. I am using Raycast. Immediately it shows the folder the file is in which is a huge relief as the is something I may do 50 times a day. Find files. Anybody else have a tool they use to by pass Spotlight?

MacBook Pro (M2 Pro, 2023)

Posted on Oct 29, 2024 9:08 AM

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jayare

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14 points

Nov 12, 2024 12:23 PM in response to curtisfromnovato

What Spotlight lacks in reliability, it makes up for in slowness and poor predictions.

I have a few files that I open often, including one I use to keep track of household tasks. Every time I type the first few letters of the filename into the Spotlight search, it hangs for 5 seconds and then returns a couple of "Suggestions" (even though I turned those of in Spotlight settings) and some applications before listing the file I actually open all the time. Why is it so bad? I hate to clutter up the desktop but it's the only way to get to files quickly.

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